Best Kirk Hammett Quotes
The Top Ten
1 My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
2 A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
3 Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
4 I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.
5 One thing I've noticed over the years is that young players - I mean 10- and 12-year-olds - really like my guitar style. There's something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and learn quickly, and then go from there.
6 When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit..
7 Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.
8 Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.
9 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;
10 The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!
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