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Music is the soundtrack to my life.

James Hetfield

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James Hetfield
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 3
Composer
Guitarist
Lyricist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Downey
California
James Alan Hetfield
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Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.
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We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.
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There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.
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My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.
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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.
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My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.
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One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
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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.
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I'm married to Metallica.
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The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.
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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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If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.
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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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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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I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.
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I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
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Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
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Rap is just to me very annoying.
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