Quotes About Music

I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

I saw Metallica, I'm not a major Metallica fan, but I like music enough to get invited and went.

That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.

Growing up, I was listening to a lot of Metallica, a lot of instrumental guitar music because I started out as a guitar player.

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

There's a band called Pantera that I listen to, and then Metallica's 'And Justice for All.' If you listen to a little bit of that before you go on stage, you're pretty much set for the whole show.

If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.

With Metallica, it's hard. I tend to like it all, but the older stuff, when we get into the deeper cuts, it really excites me personally.

My first gig with Metallica was at San Quentin State Penitentiary.

What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part of the journey I'm on with Metallica, there's just a certain edge that needs to be there.

Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.

I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I was listening to a lot of dude bands - Guns N' Roses and Metallica, all that stuff.

Most bands play one style of song. If you listen to Metallica it all sounds exactly like Metallica, and if you listen to Black Sabbath it all sounds like Black Sabbath. I like AC/DC a lot but you can pick those sounds out on the radio in a heartbeat because they all have certain things in common.

Before we joined BABYMETAL, we weren't that familiar with metal, but we learned a lot from Metallica. Watching their shows and even meeting them, they were really nice to us.

I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

I don't need anything to get me up at the gym other than 'Metallica' and 'AC/DC'.

To me, rock n' roll is rock n' roll. I try to think of it as that. To me, Funkadelic and Metallica exist in the same world.

When Lars said, 'We want you to be in Metallica,' I was blown away.

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.