Top 88 Metallica's Quotes
#1. I wanted to watch a movie or listen to some music, so I did both. I put on a DVD of The Wizard of Oz and a CD of Metallica's Ride the Lightning. IT TURNS OUT THAT WHEN YOU PLAY THEM BOTH TOGETHER, YOU GET ALL THE ANSWERS.
John Moe
#2. 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
#3. Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.
Lars Ulrich
#4. I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.
M. Ward
#5. And the Earth Becomes my Throne
I adapt to the Unknown
Under Wandering Stars I've grown
I ask no one.
Metallica
#6. I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.
David Pajo
#7. Ray wondered how different his life would be if he was accompanied by music throughout his daily routine. Walking to the pub would be more dramatic with Wagner. Stacking shelves would be quicker with Metallica.
Phil Church
#8. And, you know, whenever you check yourself into rehab, they don't focus on, you know, the fact that you're an alcoholic. They go much deeper, you know? I mean, they go way deep. They crack you open and then spill you out and examine all the things that are on the table.
Kirk Hammett - Metallica
#9. Look to the sky just before you die, cause it's the last time you'll ever see it.
Metallica
#10. Life it seems will fade away/
Drifting further every day/
Getting lost within myself/
Nothing matters, no one else/
Metallica
#11. Boredom comes from a boring mind.
Metallica
#12. On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.
Kirk Hammett
#13. I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.
Kevin McKidd
#14. I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.
Dave Mustaine
#15. I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.
William Fitzsimmons
#16. You could hear the stereo from the downstairs neighbors just fine. They were playing Metallica. Playing isn't really the right verb for Metallica, I guess. Grinding, maybe. Extruding.
Rick Riordan
#17. If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
Vanilla Ice
#18. I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.
Les Claypool
#19. There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.
James Hetfield
#20. Trust I seek and I find in you
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#21. I went down like a drunken cowgirl trying to line dance to Metallica.
Darynda Jones
#22. Open mind for a different view and nothing else matters.
Metallica
#23. Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.
Metallica
#24. It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games you can't see anymore.
James Hetfield
#25. Cannot The Kingdom of Salvation take me home?
Cliff Burton
#26. The Metallica film was like this incredible life experience where I learned the most through guys that stereotypically you would think couldn't offer much to you. That's what I love about the film: It explodes your stereotype of them - they're not just a bunch of lugheads banging on the guitar.
Joe Berlinger
#27. I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.
Phil Anselmo
#28. The Hammer Of Justice Crushes You
Metallica
#29. I noticed that you take your anger out on your guitar," I said finally. "Like, when i ate a bowl of your cereal, you went in your room and started playing like you were in Metallica or something." "Actually, it was Alice Cooper.
Alicia Thompson
#30. As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.
Scott Ian
#31. I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.
Girl Talk
#32. Life is ours we live it our way
Metallica
#33. Wish I might, Wish I may
You wish your life away
are you pacified?
All the wants you waste
All the things you chased
Metallica
#34. One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of the Metallica film.
Joe Berlinger
#35. Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".
Otto Penzler
#36. Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
Dee Dee Ramone
#37. My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.
Big Boi
#38. Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear ... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.
Rick Nielsen
#39. 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
#40. I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.
Jason Newsted
#41. It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.
Dave Mustaine
#42. You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.
Brian Posehn
#43. Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.
Slim Moon
#44. As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
Lars Ulrich
#45. I don't think Metallica sits around all day wondering why country music fans don't embrace them.
Anthony Jeselnik
#46. Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there's no one around
Metallica
#47. 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.
Lars Ulrich
#48. My mom is Christian, and she wouldn't let us listen to rock music. So me and my brother, we had this tape player with head phones, and we locked ouselves in the pantry. We were fighting over the headphones, sitting in the dark pantry listening to Metallica.
Joel Madden
#49. Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony/ Growing darkness taking dawn/
I was me but now he's gone/
Metallica
#50. Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.
Dave Mustaine
#51. As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.
Corey Taylor
#52. Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.
Brian Posehn
#53. When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.
Dave Mustaine
#54. There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.
James Hetfield
#55. Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.
Elvis Costello
#56. I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.
Stephen King
#57. I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.
Jerry Cantrell
#58. Sweater, Metallica is one of the greatest bands that ever existed. That will never break up. Ever. Ain't you seen Some Kind of Monster?
Louise Rozett
#59. How can I be lost, if I've got nowhere to go?
Metallica
#61. Boredom comes from a boring mind. - "THE STRUGGLE WITHIN," Metallica
Anonymous
#62. 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
#63. If this were a real Metallica album, "Enter Sandman" would be the worst song on the album, not the best.
Stan Jones
#65. Usually when I'm mad, I'd rather listen to angry music than soothing music - more heavy metal, some Metallica or something.
Matt Kenseth
#66. How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever? Set sail to sea, but pulled off course by the light of golden treasure.
Metallica
#67. I shot a Metallica video in Hollywood, and there were, like, 100 people on set. There was even a guy there to put antiseptic gel on my hands. Amazing. If I asked for that on a Danish set, they'd probably kick me out of the country.
Thomas Vinterberg
#68. That's why I think it hurt us, whereas these other bands [I'm assuming he means the other Big 3 -Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica] they kept doing their thing, just METAL. METAL. METAL. METAL. We didn't do that, we took a little but of a turn.
Charlie Benante
#69. Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.
Kirk Hammett
#70. I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.
Hulk Hogan
#71. If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.
Jerry Only
#72. Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.
James Hetfield
#73. I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.
Kirk Hammett
#74. Judge not lest ye be judged yourself.
Metallica
#75. I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.
Dave Mustaine
#76. People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica
Dave Mustaine
#77. Part of me also knows that this generation is the least racist and most pro-gay, so that's great. But they have a real lack of gravitas. And they have no taste in music. Vampire Weekend? Can we play some music, please? Can we rock out for a minute? Where's your Metallica?
Greg Behrendt
#78. Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.
James Hetfield
#79. When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we're still playing our metal music.
Tom Araya
#80. Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
Kirk Hammett
#81. My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
Corey Taylor
#82. As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names ... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?
Bill Burr
#83. Darkness/Imprisoning Me/All That I See/Absolute Horror/I Cannot Live/I Cannot Die/Trapped In Myself/Body My Holding Cell
Metallica
#84. We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.
Bruce Dickinson
#86. Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fu*kers to turn the music down.
Quentin Tarantino
#87. Swallow future
Spit out hope
Burn your face
Upon the chrome
Metallica
#88. I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.
Hannah Simone
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