All Kirk Hammett Quotes
- It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos. Anger
- It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. All
- Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar. Beck
- Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. All
- Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate. All
- One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.' Event
- The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies. Black
- For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I… Beelzebub
- 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 thing… All
- When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes… Behind
- A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's… Brings
- After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up… Acoustic
- Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean,… Amps
- For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero… Album
- Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has… Bunch
- Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't… All
- If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction… Ape
- Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and… Accents
- Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is… Age
- 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 pursuing… Amp
- When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster… Brings
- A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to… Emotionally