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Jaymz 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."
-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 you can't see."
-Jaymz Hetfield from the Metallica Mother Load Contest

James' quotes related to 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

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 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

Kirk's quotes related to Cliff

"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

Lars Ulrich

"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

Lars' quotes related to Cliff
"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

Jason Newsted

Jason's quotes related to Cliff
"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

Cliff Burton

"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pail deaths which men miscall their lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton, To Live is to Die

"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