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"We'd record a song
that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio,
and the radio wouldn't
play it because it was too long. Or they they
wanted to edit it,
which we wouldn't allow." James Hetfield from
Guitar world, 1991
"I don't remember doing
anything else; I don't remember not living in'
the studio. I'm itching
for people to hear this album because I'm sick
of hearing it myself."
James Hetfield from Guitar world, 1991
"The band? No way! There
ain't no band. The band is not 'the band'
right now. It's just
three guys." James Hetfield from Guitar world,
1993"There is something
powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive." James
Hetfield from USA Today,
1997
"We became so fed up
with people talking while we were playing that we
said, Screw it, let's
turn it up so they won't be able to chatter.
The band just kept
getting louder and louder." James Hetfield from
Guitar world, 1992
"Lars was always nervous
on stage, so he'd play faster and faster.
Nobody wanted to wimp
out and tell him that he was playing too fast.
We just figured, Hell,
we'll just play faster too." James Hetfield in'
from Guitar world,
1992
"Metallica is the world
to me . it always has been, and that's not
going to change. I'm
married to Metallica." James Hetfield from Guitar
world, 1996
"The fans like the idea
we do what we want. It's not an act.
Screw therecord company
and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still
have a huge underground
following." James Hetfield from USA Today,
1997
"We like to set bombs." James Hetfield from USA Today, 1997
"Merry Christmas to
all Metalliclub members and Happy New Year!! See
ya on tour!!" James
Hetfield from So What!, Holiday Issue
"It's all fun and games
until someone losses an eye, then it's fun you
can't see." James Hetfield
from the Metallica
"If you came here to
see spandex, eye makeup, and the words 'Ooh baby'
in every fuckin' song,
this ain't the fuckin' band. We came to bang
some heads." James
Hetfield, August 17, 1985
"Authority pisses me
off, I tink everyone should be able to drink and
get loud whenever they
want." James Hetfield
"We discovered how much money
influences certain things work in United States.
How things might seem
okay on the outside, but internally,
they're corrupt." James
Hetfield
"Call it anarchy of
whatever you want to--there's times when you wanna
be able to do whatever
the fuck you want and, y'know, life's short, so
why shouldn't you."
James Hetfield
"We don't want any kinda
label, we just want to do whatever the fuck
we want to do." James
Hetfield
"Look at his pants.
He's either in a gang or a plumber." James
Hetfield from So What!,
James' Fridge Wisdow, Vol. 4, Iss. 2
"ZZZZZZZ, do you walk
backwards? There is one Metallica. We have many
styles, it's called
Metallica." James Hetfield
"We...Don't...Give ...A...Sh*t.
we are playing this song for us."
James Hetfield from
a Salt Lake City show, just before playing "Ain't
My Bitch", Jan. 2,
1997"Sabbath was everything that the 60's weren't. Their music was so cool
because it was completely
anti-hippie. I hated the Beatles, Jethro
Tull, Love, and all
that other happy shit." James Hetfield
"My vocals are bad,
I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a
drum roll if your arm
was falling off." James Hetfield
"Did they make you bend over man." James Hetfield
"Hey, is this on!" James Hetfield
"You want to hear vocals?
Go sing it." James Hetfield
"Let's see, I think
the first thing we gotta to do is obviously, like
you guys were expecting,
is we gotta tank Jethro Tull for not putting
out an album this year.
Ha, Ha!!" Lars Ulrich From Grammy Awards, 1992
"I guess these things just
went down in value, uh, if we can win one I
guess anyone can, uh."
Lars Ulrich from the MTV Music Awards, 1992
"As long as it says
Metallica on the record it's Metallica." Lars
Ulrich from Metal Edge,
1996
"I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy." Lars Ulrich
"One of my few shortcomings
is that I can't predict the future." Lars
Ulrich from So What!,
Whiplash Section, Holiday Issue 1996
"...Metallica mythos...distilled
the essences of the comic books and
horror movies and the
fantastic literature of metal itself..." Lars
Ulrich from So What!,
1996
"Things are so deep
and people are always trying to read shit into
things that real simple.
Some people try and tell you what the
songsare about and
it bores me to death."
Lars Ulrich from
So What!, 1996
" Idon't like to be
pigeonholded, and i really like that people never
really know what's
going on with Metallica." Lars Ulrich from So What,
Holiday Issue 1996
"Dear The Kids, Don't
waste your precious holiday time sittin
arround all this bullshit
x lies, GO FUCK SHIT UP!! Lots 'O' Love.
P.S. Happy whatever!"
Lars Ulrich from So What, Holiday Issue 1996
"I tink if people sit
down and consider the amount of dedication we
put into what we do,
we are at the paramount of that scale." Lars
Ulrich from So What!,
An interview with Lars Ulrich, Holidar Issue
1996
"Doing things the way
you see it, going by your own heart and soul,
that is pure artistic
integrity. Whatever the hair is six or sixty
inches long, the eyes
have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F'
sharp, the amps are
Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if
you are doing it for
the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!"
Lars Ulrich from So
What, An interview with Lars Ulrich,
Holiday Issue 1996
"The 'not-giving-a-fuck'
meter is as far into the red-zone as ever
before." Lars Ulrich
from So What, Holiday Issue 1996
"We formed this band
when we were 18-19, we couldn't play... We were
just like 'Let's get
together and play some cover songs, drink some
vodka...' a year and
a half later we were touring the world, releasing
records." Lars Ulrich
"What's this all about?
It's about music, it's not about anything
else, it's not about
having the coolest cover, or the coolest title,
or about anything.
it's just about music..." Lars Ulrich
"If you sit there and
you know that rule #1 is just that everything
you do is honest and
just a natural and instinctual extension of your
self, then there you
go." Lars Ulrich
"What's the message
in Metallica? There is no message, but if therewas a message,
it really should
be look within yourself, don't listen
to me, don't listen
to James, don't listen to anybody, look within
yourself for the answers."
Lars Ulrich
"Isn't that the whole
integrity of this fuckin' band to do different
shit? We've always
tried to avoid following what everyone else is
doing, It's a challenge
to come up with things that are original. It's
not easy, but that's
part of the fun." Lars Ulrich
"The day Metallica's
over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for
another band. I'll
put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other
things I wanna try.
Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's
the only I ever wanna
be in." Lars Ulrich
"Our music comes from our hearts - And it always has." Lars Ulrich
"Right now we're stading at a massive point of rebirth." Lars Ulrich
"The new album will
come out some time in november - Knock On Wood."
Lars Ulrich"We are
going to hit the smaller cities on road after the release of
the new album." Lars
Ulrich
"Everytime we put a
record out, we lose people that can't deal with
the growth." Lars Ulrich
"Metallica's the only
band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when
it ends in five, ten
years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper
saying, 'stupid drummer
looking for stupid people to play music with.'
Metallica is it and
I think when that ceases that's it." Lars Ulrich
"If you want weight I'm your fucking guy." Lars Ulrich
"Get the fuck out of here!" Lars Ulrich
"Some people try and
tell you what the songs are about and it bores me
to death." Lars Ulrich
"They paint fucking
white lines in the middle of the road and the
copstell you you can't
drive there, but they don't do anything to prevent
you like puting nails
in the road." Lars Ulrich
"I'm not into that whole
Satanic thing. It's just something to fall
back on if you don't
have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song
about having lunch
with Satan-I'm not into it. It's silly." Kirk
Hammett From Guitar
World, 1988
"Just because you know
umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you
have to use them all
in a solo." Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, 1988
"We wanted to offer
something new to our audience. I hate it when
bands stop taking chances."
Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, 1991
"I didn't want to fall
into the trap of competing with all these other
great guitar players.
I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
Kirk Hammett From Guitar
World, 1992
"Basically I just had
to say, Screw everyone around me - from now on
i'm just gonna play
what i think is important to me and our music. So
i gave the big finger
to all the current trends is technical wizardry,
and just went off and
did what i felt was best for the songs." Kirk
Hammett from Guitar
World, 1992
"Guitar players in the
nineties seem to be reacting against the
technique-oriented
Eighties." Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, 1993
"I would have to say
I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solo,
but i've done it for
five albums now, and this time i wanted to go in
a completely different
direction. I wasn't interested in showing off
any more." Kirk Hammett
from Guitar World. 1996
"Have a very Xmas!!
Fuck all that [DEL: whose :DEL] who's naughty + er
whose who's nice biz.
Hope you have as much as I will!! Eggnog + Gint anyone?"
Kirk Hammett From So
What!, Holiday Issue 1996
"At the audition the
guys kept smiling at each other. I was like, "Do
they think this is
funny? Or are they perpetually happy people?" Kirk
Hammett, 1983
"We're the underdogs.
We haven't had a top 10 hit, and we look like a
bunch of burns out
there. amidst all this glam and this huge
production, we're going
to stick out. But that's what we're here
for--and that's what
put us here is the first place." Kirk
Hammett,1988
"My guitars are my umbilical
chord. They're directly wired into my
head." Kirk Hammett
"I'm very fortunate
to be doing the thing I do best, which is play
guitar. There aren't
many other things I could do." Kirk Hammett
"That's Pepper. He's
our mascot." Kirk Hammett:"
I don't think
sucess has changed us as people at all. We are the same
lunatics that we were
when this band first got going. We never see
ourselves as being
on a higher level than our fans." Kirk Hammett
"In the time between
albums, we wondered, 'How does Metallica fit into
all this?' And
then we realized we didn't fit into it at all, never
have, never will."
Kirk Hammett From Guitar World, July '96
"I didnt Snort it, I just Sniffed it." Kirk Hammett
"Lets turn everything up and play that way." Kirk Hammett
"Most of the riffs that
end up on the track are just shit I come up
with jamming at 3 in
the morning." Kirk Hammett
"The main riff for 'SandMan'
was just something I wrote one night."
Kirk Hammett
"Sold Out? Sure we've
sold out, last tour we sold out almost
everywhere we played"
Kirk Hammett
"Metallica is going
to be one of those bands you look back on in the
year 2008, that people
will still listen to the way I still listen to
Zeppelin and Sabbath
albums." Jason Newsted from Rolling Stone
"I ended up gettin'
a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene
Simmons of Kiss. Myself
and three other kids would pretend to be
Kiss--I liked Gene
the best." Jason Newsted
"I thought I'd do Something
nice for the band... I'll hang
myself." Jason Newsted
"It takes ten inches of foam to keep me back." Jason Newsted
"...I can appreciate
the people who want us only to go fast. If you
dig those bands, please
buy their records and see their shows so we
can keep it alive -
but don't disrespect the people who paved the way
and broke down the
doors for so many of the groups you enjoy now. One
of the bands that played
a big part in that was Metallica. We're the
guys that wrote Damage,
Inc., Fight Fire With Fire, Whiplash...you
name it, we helped
invent it. And we can still play it better than
anyone. I'll go up
against any death-metal band - pound for pound,
hour for hour, we'll
crush'em. I have great respect for them, but
those are the facts."
Jason Newsted
"Jamys' music is his
heart, you know and you dont fuck with it." Jason
Newsted
"The LA audiences thought
Metallica were a punk band, although even
the punk bands weren't
as fast as this." Brian Slagel, MetalBlade
