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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 wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow."
Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, October 1991
" No rules but Metallica rules," says Jaymz summing up the band's mood
perfectly." Here it is, black sleeve, black logo, fuck you."
"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."
"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.'"
"The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys."
"Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica."
"There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive."
"The fans like the idea that we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following."
"We like to set off bombs."
"Merry Christmas to all Metalliclub members and Happy New Year!!
"It's all fun and games until someone losses and eye, then it's fun ya' can't see."
"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."
"We discovered how much money influences certain things work in the United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt."
"Call it anarchy or 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.
"We don't want any kinda label, we just want to do whatever the fuck we want to do."
"Look at his pants. He's either in a gang or a plumber."
"ZZZZZZZ. Do you walk backwards? There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica."
"We...Don't...Give...A...Shit, We are playing this song for us"
"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."
"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."
Jaymz Hetfield - Submitted By: Ethan Kitchen
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, October 1991
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, August 1992
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, July 1993
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, July 1996
-Jaymz Hetfield from USA Today, Jan. 27, 1997
-Jaymz Hetfield from USA Today, Jan. 27, 1997
-Jaymz Hetfield from USA Today, Jan. 27, 1997
See ya on tour!!
Jaymz"
-Jaymz Hetfield from SO WHAT!, Holiday Issue 1996
-Jaymz Hetfield from the Metallica Mother Load Contest
-Jaymz Hetfield, August 17, 1985
"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."
- Jaymz Hetfield
- Jaymz Hetfield
- Jaymz Hetfield (Unknown Date)
- Jaymz Hetfield
- James Hetfield from So What!, JAMES' FRIDGE WISDOM, Vol. 4 Iss. 2
- Jaymz Hetfield
- Jaymz Hetfield from a Salt Lake City show just before playing "Ain't My Bitch" Jan. 2, 1997
- Jaymz Hetfield
- Jaymz Hetfield
"Yes, We Sell Out --- Every Seat In The House"
Jason Newstead, VH1's Behind The Music, 11-1998 - Submitted By: John
"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."
"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."
"...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."
"Jaymz's music is his heart; you know and you don’t fuck with it."
"It takes ten inches of foam to keep me back."
- Jason Newsted from Rolling Stone
- Jason Newsted
"I thought I'd do Something nice for the band... I'll hang myself."
- Jason Newsted
- Jason Newsted
- Jason Newsted
- Jason Newsted
"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."
"We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Have a very X-mas!! Fuck all that «whose who's naughty» + «whose who's nice» biz. Hope you have as much as I will!! Eggnog + Gin anyone?"
"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?"
"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."
"My guitars are my umbilical chord. They're directly wired into my head."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I didnt Snort it, I just Sniffed it."
"Lets turn everything up and play that way."
"Most of the riffs that end up on the track are just shit I come up with jamming at 3 in the morning."
"The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night."
- Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, 1988
- Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, 1991
- Kirk Hammett From Guitar World, 1992
- 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
- Kirk Hammett from Guitar World. 1996
- Kirk Hammett From So What!, Holiday Issue 1996
- Kirk Hammett, 1983
- Kirk Hammett,1988
- Kirk Hammett
- Kirk Hammett
"That's Pepper. He's our mascot."
- Kirk Hammett
- Kirk Hammett
- Kirk Hammett From Guitar World, July '96
- Kirk Hammett
- Kirk Hammett
- Kirk Hammett
- Kirk Hammett
"Sold Out? Sure we've sold out, last tour we sold out almost everywhere we played"
- Kirk Hammett
"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."
"As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica."
"I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy."
"One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future."
"...Metallica mythos...distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself..."
"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 songs are about and it bores me to death."
"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!"
"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."
"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!!"
"The 'not-giving-a-fuck' meter is as far into the red-zone as ever before."
"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."
"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..."
"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."
"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was 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."
"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."
"Our music comes from our hearts - And it always has."
"Right now we're stading at a massive point of rebirth."
"The new album will come out some time in november - Knock On Wood."
"We are going to hit the smaller cities on road after the release of the new album."
"Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth."
"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."
"If you want weight I'm your fucking guy."
"Get the fuck out of here!"
"Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death."
"They paint fucking white lines in the middle of the road and the cops tell you you can't drive there, but they don't do anything to prevent you like puting nails in the road."
- Lars Ulrich from the MTV Music Awards, 1992
- Lars Ulrich from Metal Edge, 1996
- Lars Ulrich
- Lars Ulrich from So What!, Whiplash Section, Holiday Issue 1996
- Lars Ulrich from So What!, 1996
- Lars Ulrich from So What!, 1996
"I don'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
- Lars Ulrich from So What, Holiday Issue 1996
- Lars Ulrich from So What!, An interview with Lars Ulrich, Holidar Issue 1996
- Lars Ulrich from So What, An interview with Lars Ulrich, Holiday Issue 1996
- Lars Ulrich from So What, Holiday Issue 1996
- Lars Ulrich
- Lars Ulrich
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- Lars Ulrich
- 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
- Lars Ulrich
- Lars Ulrich
- Lars Ulrich
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