MetallicA Quotes

"It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye, then it's just fun ya'can't see."
James Hetfield

"We don't want any kinda label, we just want to do whatever the fuck we want to do."
James Hetfield

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm
married to Metallica."
James Hetfield

"There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive."
James Hetfield

"The fans like the idea that 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

"We like to set off bombs." 
James Hetfield

"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 in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in."
Lars Ulrich

"Our Music Comes From Our Hearts-- And It Always Has."
Lars Ulrich

"As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica."
Lars Ulrich

"Things are so deep and people are always trying to read shit into things that are real
simple.  Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death."
Lars Ulrich

"I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's
going on with Metallica."
Lars Ulrich

"Dear 'The Kids', Don't waste your precious holiday time sittin' around reading all this
bullshit x lies, GO FUCK SHIT UP!! Lots 'O' Love, Lars P.S. Happy whatever!"
Lars Ulrich

"I think 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

"Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic
integrity. Whether 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

"Right Now We're Standing 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 The After The Release of The New Album."
Lars Ulrich

"I don't think success 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

"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

"Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in
a solo."
Kirk Hammett

"We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances."
Kirk Hammett

"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

"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 in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs."
Kirk Hammett

"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique-oriented Eighties."
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