Top 166 Metallica Quotes & Sayings

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

I love the 'Black Album' because I think it was the beginning of something, primarily. I'd met Metallica, and I'd heard Metallica before that, but when I heard the 'Black Album,' I actually had a response rather like I did with 'Sgt. Pepper.'

I'm a die-hard Metallica fan, I know the guys.

Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.

I saw Metallica, I'm not a major Metallica fan, but I like music enough to get invited and went.

I always say, 'Hey, I'm in Metallica, but I wasn't on the Black Album.'

Without Metallica, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing. I have every Metallica record, of course, and I would spend hours on drums in my parents' basement with the stereo behind me, cranking those records and learning Lars' drum beats, beat by beat.

When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.

As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?

One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.

Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with,' Metallica is it and I think when that ceases, that's it.

With my experience with Metallica, I've already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.

Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That's who Babymetal aspires to become some day.

Metallica is my favorite band.

I went down like a drunken cowgirl trying to line dance to Metallica.

Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it.

You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.

The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the thread throughout my life.

I play in Metallica, and I have fun in Metallica. I tell you, I am the luckiest man on the planet because we have a good time and we're happy. When we put on our guitars, we're teenagers again, and that's where the fun comes in.

A lot of the metal bands that were around when Metallica put out 'The Black Album,' now they're playing clubs, and Metallica is playing stadiums.

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.

I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

I'm married to Metallica.

Most bands play one style of song. If you listen to Metallica it all sounds exactly like Metallica, and if you listen to Black Sabbath it all sounds like Black Sabbath. I like AC/DC a lot but you can pick those sounds out on the radio in a heartbeat because they all have certain things in common.

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.

Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I don't think Metallica sits around all day wondering why country music fans don't embrace them.

My first gig with Metallica was at San Quentin State Penitentiary.

I think every Metallica album is unique in its own way.

The great thing about Metallica's music and the lyrics, it's always going to be hopefully a motivating experience.

I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.

We absolutely cherish our kids. But the fact that we all have them - it's definitely created an additional bond. It's not just Metallica - it's our families. And we also have Metallica.

When Lars said, 'We want you to be in Metallica,' I was blown away.

That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.

I don't need anything to get me up at the gym other than 'Metallica' and 'AC/DC'.

I once won a Grammy for an Australian version of 'Turn the Page' that another artist did; I can't remember his name. There've been covers down through the years around the world, but I did like Metallica's, because I kind of related to Metallica when they first came out, because Jimmy Hetfield really reminded me of me in 1965, you know?

I am a music freak. My tastes run the gamut from Willie Nelson to Metallica to Miles Davis.

I love heavy metal, Metallica. I'm into Jefferson Starship and acid rock.

I have a very vague surface level awareness of Metallica.

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.

People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica

The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just getting into music, and I liked that album a lot, but it didn't necessarily change my life. But when I started picking up all the other Metallica records, 'Master of Puppets' was the one to me that stuck out with its songwriting.

I like the original Metallica version they did on 'Garage Days' - 'Last Caress' and 'Green Hell.'

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.