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If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.
James Hetfield
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James Hetfield
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 3
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Downey
California
James Alan Hetfield
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Trios aren't really geared for slide unless you're gonna play chords, or play that simple George Thorogood style. It gets pretty thin when you play single note lines.
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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
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No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.
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I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.
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Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.
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I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
James Hetfield
You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.
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If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
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There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.
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It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.
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When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.
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A lot of times, I'll have a goal, I'll start writing, and I'll end up in some far off place, which is good. It's nice to have a focus, but letting the lyrics write themselves where they need to go is important.
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Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. For everyone.
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No one but me can save myself though its too late, death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye.
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There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.
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I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
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I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.
James Hetfield
I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.
James Hetfield
Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.
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We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.
James Hetfield
