Quotes About Cliff Burton

#1. 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

#2. Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

Russell Kirk

#3. As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'

Cliff Burton

#4. When I started, I decided to devote my life to it and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer

Cliff Burton

#5. Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

Cliff Burton

#6. Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Cliff Burton

#7. Cannot The Kingdom of Salvation take me home?

Cliff Burton

#8. To live is to die.

Cliff Burton

#9. There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

Anna Quindlen

#10. You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

Cliff Burton

#11. Weakness is emanating from the crowd

Mick Wall

#12. We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

Orville Dewey

#13. My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Jonathan Lethem

#14. The magic of God is three. We were the magic of God.

Justin Torres

#15. Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

Cliff Burton

#16. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives

Cliff Burton

#17. We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

Cliff Burton

#18. One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

Murasaki Shikibu

#19. Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

George Lucas

#20. I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

Anton Yelchin

#21. Her soul belongs to words and books. Every time she reads, she is home.

Anonymous

#22. I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.

Ronald Reagan

#23. Control your life through insanity.

Cliff Burton

#24. Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate ... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Cliff Burton

#25. I know. I know, pretty girl. I knew all along.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#27. Theology is unnecessary.

Stephen Hawking

#28. He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of the end, though few recognize it as such at the time.

Alma Katsu