"When I came into Metallica, I had to……" — Jason Newsted
"When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass."
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15 Quotes by Jason Newsted
Jason Newsted has 15 quotes on this site.
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I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction…
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Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will…
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I ended up gettin a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three…
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I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to…
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All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.
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I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.
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I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I…
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It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never…
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To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of…
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I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.
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The past is where its supposed to be.
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I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.
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More Bass Quotes
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I…
— Dan Aykroyd
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I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined…
— Geezer Butler
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
— David Byrne
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Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
— Stanley Clarke
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Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.
— Les Claypool
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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since…
— Les Claypool
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus.…
— Ikue Mori
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Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum
— Nicki Minaj
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of…
— Jimmy Webb
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