Jason Newsted Quotes

#1. Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

Robert Olen Butler

#2. I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

Jason Newsted

#3. I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

Jason Newsted

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

Jason Newsted

#7. You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know? ...

Jason Newsted

#8. 'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Jason Newsted

#9. It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.

Martha Graham

#10. Launches usually moved into the armies together,

Orson Scott Card

#11. And to the memory of my grandfather, who taught me to look up to people others looked down on, because we're not so different after all

Bill Clinton

#12. I thought I'd do something nice for the band ... I'll hang myself.

Jason Newsted

#13. All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

Jason Newsted

#14. We don't know," Gansey said, around his straw. "Why is the tea so good here?"
"I spit in it. Let me see this thing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

Jason Newsted

#16. It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.

Tom Ford

#17. Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn't stop you from being a person.

Mildred H. McAfee

#18. I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.

Tim Waterstone

#19. I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

Jason Newsted

#20. I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

Jason Newsted

#21. To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

Jason Newsted

#22. I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

Jason Newsted

#23. When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

Jason Newsted

#24. The past is where its supposed to be.

Jason Newsted

#25. Scarlet's Dancing Monkey of Fiery Doom

Tui T. Sutherland