Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar. — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head. — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos. — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
One thing I've noticed over the years is that young players - I mean 10- and 12-year-olds - really like my guitar… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
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… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
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… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
Basically I just had to say, Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share
