Top 34 Best Hetfield Quotes
#1. I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.
James Hetfield
#2. Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.
James Hetfield
#3. It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.
James Hetfield
#6. We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.
James Hetfield
#7. 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
#8. The fans like the idea 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.
James Hetfield
#10. Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe ... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries ... Broken is the promise, Betrayal ... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail ... Follow the god that failed.
James Hetfield
#11. Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.
James Hetfield
#13. I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
James Hetfield
#14. Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
James Hetfield
#15. 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.
James Hetfield
#16. I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.
James Hetfield
#17. Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
James Hetfield
#18. When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.
James Hetfield
#22. Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.
James Hetfield
#23. Every breath I take becomes deeper, and I become more confident of myself without my crutches. The lies I've filled my body and soul with aren't needed anymore. They're not welcome. I choose to live, not just exist.
James Hetfield
#25. Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.
James Hetfield
#26. I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.
James Hetfield
#28. Aqualung is one that my brother turned me onto. It wasn't that hard-rocking, but Martin Barre had a really good sound. He knew what he was doing.
James Hetfield
#29. One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
James Hetfield
#30. My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.
James Hetfield
#31. Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
James Hetfield
#33. No one but me can save myself though its too late, death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye.
James Hetfield
#34. There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.
James Hetfield
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