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James

THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
INFOOn NEM
It's scary to look out and see couples hugging during that song. Oh fuck, I thought this was a Metallica show.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
Some guy was bowing to me at the Marguee the other night, seriously! And I was shouting at him, 'Stop it - let me buy you a beer.'


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see


THANKSSykoChik82@aol.com
DATEunknown
There's a lot of people there just because 'Ooh play Enter Sandman.' So we play it first to get the fucking thing out of the way. So they have to sit through the rest of the shit! They gotta hear the old shit. You gotta use it against 'em y'know?


THANKSSykoChik82@aol.com
DATEunknown
INFOOn 3 reasons why James said that his Black Sabbath record was important
First it scared the shit out of me. Second, it crushed the fuck out of all the peace'n'love'n everything's groovy bullshit that was still hanging around in the early seventies. And third, my friends' moms wouldn't let them own it!


THANKSSykoChik82@aol.com
DATEunknown
I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.


THANKSSykoChik82@aol.com
DATEunknown
I remember back when I stood in line for 3 hours waiting for autographs, and when the star just hopped into his limo, and took off, I'd think 'You dick, I hate you.' I'd go home, rip down all his posters...


THANKSsteinberg@v-wave.com
DATEunknown
I remember this guy (Cliff) lit my couch on fire a couple of times


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
Knowing Cliff's attitude, he'd kick our butt's if we quit.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
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.


THANKSanonymous
DATE1990
Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.


THANKSanonymous
DATE1988
You've gotta keep fit to play that hard every night. Better order five more beers.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
The first time I played sober was because I just forgot to drink. 'Damn' I thought...'I'm playing better.'


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
I love my job, play softball and have a great life. Things are a hell of a lot better now than when I was 21.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
People were throwing shoes at us in SF and LA. I don't know why. It's like 'You guys are great. Here's my shoe.' People must have been walking around with one shoe.


THANKSanonymous
DATE1988
We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
We don't plan concepts. We didn't write RIDE THE LIGHTNING about death, or MASTER OF PUPPETS about manipulation. That just happens.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
I sit there and I go 'Oh God, what am I gonna write?' and all of a sudden, it happens. The first line's down and all hell flows after that.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
INFOOn AIDS
This shit (AIDS) scares me. You know, one time and you're dead! Touring is the dangerous part. A lot of bands are going to be in trouble the way they carry on. I mean, we've been pretty bad, but on the last tour, no way! It was kinda, 'Screw that!' Some of the roadies are pretty sick, as far as wearing rubbers or whatever. I don't know. I've never done that before...ha ha ha...and that's only MAYBE safe. It's very unhappening, this whole thing.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
My family went to the LA show. It was kinda weird. I hadn't seen 'em in quite a while. They liked it. They just wish I'd call more often.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
You can pick up a very shitty song to cover. I mean, the Foo Fighters doing 'Baker Street'? I don't get that at all. It does take me back to high school, I guess, or at least to a song that I completely fucking hated. So you have to be careful.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
Budgie and Mercyful Fate were also pretty inventive. Fate would play a great riff and never come back to it, and it would piss you off.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
There's always a new generation of angry young men who latch onto Kill 'Em All.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
INFOOn KEA
I guess there was some thought put into it; I mean, at least they rhymed.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
I would spend days just going through Lars' record collection, taping over my REO Speedwagon cassettes with bands like Angel Witch and Diamond Head and Motörhead. I was in heaven at his house.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
When it got to the part where the first Pharaoh's son is taken and the fog rolls in, Cliff said,


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
My dad was always one of these 'Cut your hair!' kind of guys. My mom was more open to things. She painted a lot. She kinda reminded me of a Berkeley mom. She wasn't alive for any of my success with Metallica. It really pisses me off. But you know, I think she knows what's going on still.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
INFOOn people showing up at his place
I just walk out with the gun and say 'Hey!'. Oh yeah, I'm a meanie. I send my dogs after 'em... No, actually, I just tell 'em, 'This is my house and...leave me alone, okay'


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
We can do whatever the fuck we want, really. We've got carte blanche. I mean, when we did 'Fade to Black', that was our first ballad and it really blew a few minds out there. People wrote us off then; 'Fuck them! It's over. It's no longer speed metal.' Okay, fine. You can feel that way. But fuck you, too.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
INFOOn Ted Nugent and hunting
Ted's pretty intense, put it that way. I love hunting; I love getting away and the quiet part of it all. I think he's a little opposite of that. Whack 'em and stack 'em, ya know?


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
INFOOn Marianne Faithful
You know, she's quite a character, and I love that. She could sit and tell stories for days. But she's a very, very elegant and pleasant woman, very 'been there, done that.' You could learn alot from that.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
INFOOn married life
You know, it's not as different as I thought, which is kind of disappointing. But it's fine. Everyone said, 'Oh, your life is going to be totally different,' and it's the same. Which is good, in a way.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
We discovered how much money influences certain things and discovered how things work in the United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
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 always short, so why shouldn't you?


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
Regret? That's a screwed up word.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
INFOOn "So Far, So Good, So What"
Megadeth's whole album could fit onto one of our sides.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
We just get along hella good.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
We didn't fuckin' set out to make history or whatever. Fuckin' shit happens.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
Who gives a shit about autographs?


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
I like Danzig from the Misfits. He can sing real good.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
My older stepbrother, David, was kind of a hippie, kind of a hairy guy. He went to college and stuff. He played drums in a band, and I used to go bash on the shit.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
I was in a band called Obsession. And then there was another band called Leather Charm. Then I met Lars.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
If I'm hung over, I'd rather just stand on the side and play. We wanted to get a frontman but no one sang good enough so I just did both.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
Back then (in highschool) you'd look under the music section of The Recycler for heavy metal, and there's like two people. The same people every fuckin week into 'sex and Motorhead.'


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and shit. I wasn't too outgoing at all.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
(On first jam with Lars) He had a fucked up, hella fuckin cheap Gemco kit or whatever. We told him, 'Yeah, we'll give you a call,' and we never even called him back!


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
In the early days, when we were playing clubs around LA, people didn't understand what we were about. 'Oh,' they'd think, 'a God-damned punk band,' and they'd throw chairs at us.


THANKSanonymous
DATEunknown
I remember the first time we ever got an encore. It was a Monday night at two in the morning at the Troubadour and there was about ten people there but they were clapping and we came back for the encore. We were deciding on what song we were going to play and Lars starts up a different song! He just decided he wanted to play. And we hadn't practiced that song for like three months. I had forgot all the lyrics, but I went through the motions. And after the gig, I just turned right around and punched him out onstage!


THANKSLowLyric17@aol.com
DATEunknown
INFOOn switching from Piano to Guitar
I wanted to make noise, not study theory


THANKSUnforgvn7@aol.com
DATEunknown
INFOOn how long it took to make TBA
We've been in the studio for so long, a war has come and gone, and we're still stuck in here


THANKSUnforgvn7@aol.com
DATEunknown
When the Black Album got popular, I stopped listening to it.


THANKSUnforgvn7@aol.com
DATEunknown
INFOOn TBA
Economy my ass! That was the most expensive record we've ever made.


THANKSUnforgvn7@aol.com
DATEunknown
There's a fucking recklesness to all the new stuff which I just love.


THANKSUnforgvn7@aol.com
DATEunknown
I'm married to Metallica.


THANKSUnforgvn7@aol.com
DATEunknown
Sometimes we spit towards each other to wake up. A good loogie can really get someone's attention.


THANKSMegara999@hotmail.com
DATE1991
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.


THANKSMegara999@hotmail.com
DATE1991
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.


THANKSMegara999@hotmail.com
DATE1992
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.'


THANKSMinusClover84@aol.com
DATEunknown
INFOOn styles of music
We do have many styles of music, its called Metallica


THANKSjovy_quaso@hotmail.com
DATEunknown
We've come here, TO KICK YOUR ASS!!! ...That's why you're here, right?


THANKShalfdeadpimp@hotmail.com
DATEunknown
Metal Up Your Ass!


THANKSDHSDrama@aol.com
DATEunknown
Definitely, the harp player. We met him at the first rehearsal, and we knew he was into our music when he rolled up sleeves and there were a bunch of tattoos. He introduced himself, 'Hi I'm the harpist,' and we were like, 'Get the fuck outta here! You're one of the stage hands.'


THANKSDHSDrama@aol.com
DATE1996
INFOOn Bleeding Me
It's thick as snot, man. It's full on. It's a great song. It's got it all.


THANKSDHSDrama@aol.com
DATE1998
Well, without getting really political, I think there have always been people who have been afraid of music and its potential for, I guess, social breakouts, or whatever you want to call it. You know, young kids are looking for something to grasp onto, whatever it may be. When you're that age, there's a lot of that feeling of needing to belong, whether it's wearing black lipstick and cutting the ass out of your pants, or whatever -- people are looking for things to grasp onto.


THANKSt_hickey@optusnet.com.au
DATEunknown
INFOOn James getting burnt in Montreal
I watched the skin on my hand swell up and blister, like the toxic avenger


THANKSlpm519@yahoo.com
DATE1996
Guys relate to their moms, I think, a bit better than their fathers. When you're singing about Mom, it's like...what are you gonna say when you're getting into a fight with some guy. You say: 'Hey! Your fucking mom blew me!' That hits home, it's a little deeper, gets you a little more upset. Hur, hur.


THANKSmakala_15@yahoo.com
DATEunknown
Excuse my fucking laguage


THANKSmakala_15@yahoo.com
DATEunknown
We...don't...give...a...shit, we are playing this song for us


THANKSmakala_15@yahoo.com
DATEunknown
We like set bombs off


THANKSmakala_15@yahoo.com
DATEunknown
There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive


THANKSmakala_15@yahoo.com
DATEunknown
If you came here to see spandex, eyes makeup, and the words ' Ooh baby' in every fuckin song, this ain't the fuckin band. We came here to bang some heads


THANKSmakala_15@yahoo.com
DATEunknown
No rules but Metallica rules


THANKSmakala_15@yahoo.com
DATEunknown
Look at his pants. He's either in a gang, or he's a plumber


THANKSmakala_15@yahoo.com
DATEunknown
My vocals are bad, I can't sing. Hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off


THANKSmakala_15@yahoo.com
DATEunknown
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


THANKSTimothyner
DATE1975
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