Quotes About Music

Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it.

I always say, 'Hey, I'm in Metallica, but I wasn't on the Black Album.'

We absolutely cherish our kids. But the fact that we all have them - it's definitely created an additional bond. It's not just Metallica - it's our families. And we also have Metallica.

Metallica is my favorite band.

I'm a die-hard Metallica fan, I know the guys.

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.

I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.

I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

I find songs today very fake. I can't write according to the meter, but I can write from my heart.

I like listening to Method Man before fighting.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

My first concert was Method Man and Redman because they came down to Kosovo.

I share a lovely relationship with Javed Saab. I understand his method of working.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

I don't think the important part of making music is the method used but rather the spirit put into it, so to speak.

I am proud to say I'm a director's composer. People do method acting, I do method composing. I like to get into the skin of the character and go deep into the director's vision.

I don't shop beats. That was never my method coming up. I think it's very strange to have a CD of 30 or 40 beats and then just pick one.

I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum machine, and then I'll come back later and try to pop off rhythms to it.

It's easy to get a good amp that might not be the right amp for you. When you go to a music store, really turn the amps on and turn 'em up - hopefully they'll let you - and work through the sounds. This is an important decision, so take your time and be methodical.