Kirk Hammett Quotes
- 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…
- 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…
- We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
- The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night.
- I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.
- I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.
- My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
- A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
- I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!
- Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
- I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
- My musical tastes change every week.
- The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!
- 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 going.…
- I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I…
- I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
- 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 no…
- Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.
- Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.
- Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.