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Quotes About Cliff
"Sabbath was everything that the 60's weren't.
Their music was so cool because it was completely anti-hippie. I hated the Beatles,
Jethro Tull, Love, and all that other happy shit."
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, October 1991 "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."
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, October 1991
"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."
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, October 1991
"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."
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, August 1992
"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.'"
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, August 1992
"The band? No way! There ain't no
band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys."
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, July 1993
"Metallica is the world to me - it always has
been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica."
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, July 1996
"There is something powerful in Metallica, a
will, a drive."
-Jaymz Hetfield from USA Today, Jan. 27, 1997
"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."
-Jaymz Hetfield from USA Today, Jan. 27, 1997
"We like to set off bombs."
-Jaymz Hetfield from USA Today, Jan. 27, 1997
"Merry Christmas to all Metalliclub members and
Happy New Year!!
See ya on tour!!
Jaymz"
-Jaymz Hetfield from SO WHAT!, Holiday Issue 1996
"It's all fun and games until someone losses
and eye, then it's fun ya' can't see."
-Jaymz Hetfield from the Metallica Mother Load Contest
“If you came for spandex, eye-makeup, and the
words ‘oh baby’ in every song, your at the wrong fucking show.”
-Jaymz Hetfield, August 17, 1985
"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone
should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."
- Jaymz Hetfield
"We discovered how much money influences certain
things work in the United States. How things might seem okay on the outside,
but internally, they're corrupt."
- Jaymz Hetfield
"Call it anarchy or whatever you want to--there's
times when you wanna be able to do whatever the fuck you want and, y'know, life's
short, so why shouldn't you.
-Jaymz Hetfield
"We don't want any kinda label, we just want
to do whatever the fuck we want to do."
- Jaymz Hetfield
"Look at his pants. He's either in a gang
or a plumber."
-James Hetfield from So What!, JAMES' FRIDGE WISDOM, Vol. 4 Iss. 2
"ZZZZZZZ. Do you walk backwards? There is one
Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica. "
- Jaymz Hetfield
When answering the question: Will you ever return to the old Metallica style?
"We...Don't...Give...A...Sh*t, We are playing
this song for us"
- Jaymz Hetfield from a Salt Lake City show just before playing "Ain't My Bitch"
Jan. 2, 1997
"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 from Guitar World, November 1988
"Just because you know umpteen billion scales,
it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo."
-Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, November 1988
"We wanted to offer something new to our audience.
I hate it when bands stop taking chances."
-Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, October 1991
"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 from Guitar World, March 1992
"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 from Guitar World, March 1992
"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting
against the technique-oriented Eighties."
-Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, April 1993
"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 from Guitar World, July 1996
"I would have to say I'm bored with the standard
rock, guitar solo, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted
to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing
off any more."
-Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, July 1996
"Have a very merry Xmas!! Fuck all that
"whose who's naughty" + "whose who's nice" biz. Hope you have as
much fun as I will!!
Eggnog + Gin anyone?
K. H."
-Kirk Hammett from SO WHAT!, Holiday Issue 1996
"At the audition the guys kept smiling at each
other. I was like, "Do they think this is funny? Or are they perpetually happy
people?"
-Kirk Hammett, 1983
"We're the underdogs. We haven't had a
Top 10 hit, and we look like a bunch of bums out there. Amidst all this
glam and this huge production, we're going to stick out. But that's what
we're here for--and that's what put us here in the first place.
- Kirk Hammett, 1988
"My guitars are my umbilical chord. They're
directly wired into my head."
- Kirk Hammett
"I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do
best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do."
- Kirk Hammett
"That's Pepper. He's our mascot"
- Kirk Hammett
"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
"Let's see, I think the first thing we gotta
to do is obviously, like you guys were expecting, is we gotta thank Jethro Tull
for not putting out an album this year. Ha Ha!!"
-Lars Ulrich from the Grammy Awards, February 25, 1992
"I guess these things just went down in value,
uh, if we can win one I guess anyone can, uh.
-Lars Ulrich from the MTV Music Awards, September 9, 1992
"As long as it says Metallica on the record it's
Metallica."
-Lars Ulrich from Metal Edge, May 1996
"One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict
the future."
-Lars Ulrich from SO WHAT!, WHIPLASH SECTION, Holiday Issue 1996
"...Metallica's mythos...distilled the essences
of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself..."
-Lars Ulrich from SO WHAT!, Until it leaps, Holiday Issue 1996
"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 from SO WHAT!, Until it leaps, Holiday Issue 1996
"I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really
like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica."
-Lars Ulrich from SO WHAT!, Until it leaps, Holiday Issue 1996
"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 from SO WHAT!, Holiday Issue 1996
"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 from SO WHAT!, An interview with Lars Ulrich, Holiday Issue 1996
"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 from SO WHAT!, An interview with Lars Ulrich, Holiday Issue 1996
"The 'not-giving-a-fuck' meter is as far into
the red-zone as ever before."
-Lars Ulrich from SO WHAT!, An interview with Lars Ulrich, Holiday Issue 1996
"We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn't
play... We were just like 'Let's get together and play some cover songs, drink
some vodka...' a year and a half later we were touring the world, releasing
records.
- Lars Ulrich
"What's this all about? It's about music,
it's not about anything else, it's not about having the coolest cover, or the
coolest title, or about anything. It's just about music..."
- Lars Ulrich
"If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is
just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual
extension of yourself, then there you go."
- Lars Ulrich
"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
"Isn't that the whole integrity of this fuckin'
band to do different shit? We've always tried to avoid following what
everyone else is doing. It's a challenge to come up with things that are
original. It's not easy, but that's part of the fun."
- Lars Ulrich
"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
"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 road
the after the release of the new album."
- Lars Ulrich
"I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy"
- Lars Ulrich
"Everytime we put a record out, we lose people
that can't deal with the growth,"
- Lars Ulrich
"Metallica's the only band i've ever been in.
I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in
the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with,'
Metallica is it and I think when that ceases, that's it."
- Lars Ulrich
"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 from Rolling Stone
"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
"I thought I'd do something nice for the band...I'll
hang myself."
- Jason Newsted
"...I can appreciate the people who want us only
to go fast. If you dig those bands, please buy their records and see their shows
so we can keep it alive - but don't disrespect the people who paved the way
and broke down the doors for so many of the groups you enjoy now. One of the
bands that played a big part in that was Metallica. We're the guys that wrote
Damage Inc., Fight Fire With Fire, Whiplash...you name it, we helped invent
it. And we can still play it better than anyone. I'll go up against any death-metal
band - pound for pound, hour for hour, we'll crush 'em. I have great respect
for them, but those are the facts."
- Jason Newsted
"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 tothem to avoid being used."
- Cliff Burton
"When I started, I decided to devote my life
to it and no get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer"
- Cliff Burton
"You don't burn out from going too fast. You
burn out from going too slow and getting bored."
- Cliff Burton
"Control your life through insanity."
- Cliff Burton
"We do what we want, and if they consider that selling
out, then whatever"
<>The Band's Quotes About
Cliff
"He was a wild, hippie-ish, acid-taking, bell-bottom-wearing
guy. He meant business, and you couldn't fuck around with him. I wanted to get
that respect that he had. We gave him shit about his bell-bottoms everyday.
He didn't care. 'This is what I wear. Fuck you." He loved music. He was really
intellectual but very to the point. He taught me a lot about attitude."
- James Hetfield
"I remember this guy lit my couch on a fire a
couple of times."
- James Hetfield
"I saw the bus lying right on him. I saw his
legs sticking out. I freaked. The bus driver, I recall, was trying to yank the
blanket out from under him to use for other people. I just went, 'Don't fucking
do that!' I already wanted to kill the guy. I don't know if he was drunk or
if he hit some ice. All I knew was, he was driving and Cliff wasn't alive anymore."
- James Hetfield
"Knowing Cliff's attitude, he'd kick our butts
if we quit."
- James Hetfield, on continuing after Cliff's death.
"Cliff's taken classes in school on music theory,
things like mixing harmonies together. I think he took a junior college course.
"
- James Hetfield
"People probably thought, 'Oh, they're not going
to do the heavy lyrics now because of what happened.' Man, those lyrics mean
a lot more to me now."
- James Hetfield
"We heard this wild solo going on and thought,
'I don't see any guitar player up there.' It turned out it was the bass player,
Cliff, with a wah wah pedal and this mop of hair. He didn't care whether people
were there. He was looking down at his bass playing."
- James Hetfield
"He definitely deserves all that we've got"
- James Hetfield
"To this day, I think about him every day."
- Kirk Hammett, 1988
"He was always against looking too posey, he
was always into just looking natural."
- Kirk Hammett
"The only person who was able to figure out a
time and write it on a piece of paper was Cliff. He had an immense knowledge
of timing, musical harmonies and music theory in general."
- Kirk Hammett
"This guy with wild, wild red hair flying all
over the place and a Rickenbacker and a real distinct bass style and I thought
to myself, 'this guy is fuckin' wild!'"
- Kirk Hammett
"If we had hung it up, Cliff would've been so
pissed off."
- Kirk Hammett
"In Denmark while recording Master of Puppets,
we hung out a lot. We'd go out and play poker for 8 hours straight after being
up for 24 hours. We'd find a seafood restaurant that was open, eat raw oysters
and drink beer, scream at the natives while we were drunk...that's some of my
best memories of him."
- Kirk Hammett
"Cliff was so completely honest to himself and
the people around him. He hated all this being-put-on-a-pedestal bullshit."
- Lars Ulrich
"We always miss Cliff, but he is kind of on the
record. (...And Justice for all) The song 'To live is to die' is really based
on a number of riffs that Cliff wrote acouple of years ago. It's kind of cool
to have something written by Cliff in the new album."
- Lars Ulrich
"I know Cliff, more than anyone else in the band,
would have been the first guy to give us a kick in the ass, and wouldn't want
us to sit around. It's what he would have wanted us to do."
- Lars Ulrich
"I wasn't too angry in the beginning. I was obviously
grieving, but the anger started setting in when I realized that it's not new
that people in rock-n-roll die, but usually it's self-inflicted in terms of
excessive drink or drug abuse. He had nothing to do with it. It's so useless.
Completely useless."
- Lars Ulrich
"The whole way that me and James write songs
together... that was very much shaped when Cliff was in the band, and was very
much shaped around Cliff's musical input. The way he really taught us
about harmonies and melodies and all that kind of stuff... his vibe is always
with us, and he was certainly a big part of the whole way that we got our chops
together in the early days, about our attitudes and our musical vibe and our
everything."
- Lars Ulrich
"He was a great and very special talent.....Cliff's
solos were absolutely brilliant."
- Jason Newsted
"He is the Hendrix of bass for his ground breaking
style"
- Jason Newsted
"There was a huge shadow there. I'd always looked
up to him so much"
- Jason Newsted, upon replacing Cliff