Famous Metallica quotes collection

James Hetfield quotes:

"Regret? That's a screwed up word."

"I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something."

"When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening."

"I'm married to Metallica."

Kirk Hammett quotes:

"I would have never imagined that we'd be as popular as we are right now."

"My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired to my head."


Lars Ulrich quotes:

"To me the most boring thing in the world is safe, mainstream heavy metal...I'd rather listen to Madonna."

"To go from one extreme to the other, with no boundaries. That's the best. That's what Metallica is all about."

Jason Newsted quotes:

"We don't have to do any shit we don't want to. If it doesn't come out good, forget it. It has to be unique, something that really represents us."

Cliff Burton quotes

"To live is to die"

Famous rock group quotes

"I sit there and I go 'Oh God, what am I gonna write?' and all of a sudden, it happens. The first line's down and all hell flows after that."
~ James Alan Hetfield , Metallica

"We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird."
~ Angus Young, AC/DC

"I had a house in the middle of the woods, ... I stayed alone the whole time, and I tried always to be battling with the things I thought the character was battling with - seclusion, drug addiction, severe chronic depression and suicidal tendencies."

~ Michael Pitt

"We weren't kids, and not too many odds were in our favor, ... We didn't look the part of a rock group by any stretch. We played the Copa, and Walter Winchell said it was a good show but (that) we looked like two bookies, a jockey and a basketball player!"

~ Bob Gaudio

“Numbers from the Beast”

~ Iron Maiden