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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
