Creativity Quotes by Robert Trujillo

Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix…

— Robert Trujillo

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

— Robert Trujillo

I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.

— Robert Trujillo

If you choose to take care of yourself, you're going to get more mileage for your career.

— Robert Trujillo

When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.

— Robert Trujillo

With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it…

— Robert Trujillo

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

— Robert Trujillo

It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when…

— Robert Trujillo

'Mama I'm Coming Home' is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the lyrics to…

— Robert Trujillo

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body,…

— Robert Trujillo

Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco.

— Robert Trujillo

Mike Clark, who's a really amazing surfer, got me back into surfing. I surfed a lot from '82 to '86, and then I kind…

— Robert Trujillo