"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."
Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, October 1991

" No rules but Metallica rules," says Jaymz summing up the band's mood perfectly." Here it is, black sleeve, black logo, fuck you."
Jaymz Hetfield - Submitted By: Ethan Kitchen

"I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself."
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, October 1991

"Lars was always nervous on stage, so he'd play faster and faster. Nobody wanted to wimp out and tell him that he was playing too fast. We just figured, 'Hell, we'll just play faster too.'"
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, August 1992

"The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys."
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, July 1993

"Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica."
-Jaymz Hetfield from Guitar World, July 1996

"There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive."
-Jaymz Hetfield from USA Today, Jan. 27, 1997

"The fans like the idea that we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following."
-Jaymz Hetfield from USA Today, Jan. 27, 1997

"We like to set off bombs."
-Jaymz Hetfield from USA Today, Jan. 27, 1997

"Merry Christmas to all Metalliclub members and Happy New Year!! See ya on tour!! Jaymz"
-Jaymz Hetfield from SO WHAT!, Holiday Issue 1996

"It's all fun and games until someone losses and eye, then it's fun ya' can't see."
-Jaymz Hetfield from the Metallica Mother Load Contest

"If you came here to see spandex, eye makeup, and the words ‘Ooh baby’ in every fuckin’ song, this ain’t the fuckin’ band. We came to bang some heads."
-Jaymz Hetfield, August 17, 1985

"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."
- Jaymz Hetfield

"We discovered how much money influences certain things work in the United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt."
- Jaymz Hetfield

"Call it anarchy or whatever you want to--there's times when you wanna be able to do whatever the fuck you want and, y'know, life's short, so why shouldn't you.
- Jaymz Hetfield (Unknown Date)

"We don't want any kinda label, we just want to do whatever the fuck we want to do."
- Jaymz Hetfield

"Look at his pants. He's either in a gang or a plumber."
- James Hetfield from So What!, JAMES' FRIDGE WISDOM, Vol. 4 Iss. 2

"ZZZZZZZ. Do you walk backwards? There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica."
- Jaymz Hetfield

"We...Don't...Give...A...Shit, We are playing this song for us"
- Jaymz Hetfield from a Salt Lake City show just before playing "Ain't My Bitch" Jan. 2, 1997

"Sabbath was everything that the 60's weren't. Their music was so cool because it was completely anti-hippie. I hated the Beatles, Jethro Tull, Love, and all that other happy shit."
- Jaymz Hetfield

"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."
- Jaymz Hetfield

"Yes, We Sell Out --- Every Seat In The House"
Jason Newstead, VH1's Behind The Music, 11-1998 - Submitted By: John

"Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums."
- Jason Newsted from Rolling Stone

"I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss--I liked Gene the best."
- Jason Newsted

"I thought I'd do Something nice for the band... I'll hang myself."
- Jason Newsted

"...I can appreciate the people who want us only to go fast. If you dig those bands, please buy their records and see their shows so we can keep it alive - but don't disrespect the people who paved the way and broke down the doors for so many of the groups you enjoy now. One of the bands that played a big part in that was Metallica. We're the guys that wrote Damage, Inc., Fight Fire With Fire, Whiplash...you name it, we helped invent it. And we can still play it better than anyone. I'll go up against any death-metal band - pound for pound, hour for hour, we'll crush'em. I have great respect for them, but those are the facts."
- Jason Newsted

"Jaymz's music is his heart; you know and you don’t fuck with it."
- Jason Newsted

"It takes ten inches of foam to keep me back."
- Jason Newsted

"I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan-I'm not into it. It's silly."
- Kirk Hammett From Guitar World, 1988

"Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo."
- Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, 1988

"We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances."
- Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, 1991

"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
- Kirk Hammett From Guitar World, 1992

"Basically I just had to say, «Screw everyone around me - from now on i'm just gonna play what i think is important to me and our music.» So i gave the big finger to all the current trends is technical wizardry, and just went off and did what i felt was best for the songs."
- Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, 1992

"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique-oriented Eighties."
- Kirk Hammett from Guitar World, 1993

"I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solo, but i've done it for five albums now, and this time i wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more."
- Kirk Hammett from Guitar World. 1996

"Have a very Xmas!! Fuck all that «whose who's naughty» + «whose who's nice» biz. Hope you have as much as I will!! Eggnog + Gin anyone?"
- Kirk Hammett From So What!, Holiday Issue 1996

"At the audition the guys kept smiling at each other. I was like, "Do they think this is funny? Or are they perpetually happy people?"
- Kirk Hammett, 1983

"We're the underdogs. We haven't had a top 10 hit, and we look like a bunch of burns out there. amidst all this glam and this huge production, we're going to stick out. But that's what we're here for--and that's what put us here is the first place."
- Kirk Hammett,1988

"My guitars are my umbilical chord. They're directly wired into my head."
- Kirk Hammett

"I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do."
- Kirk Hammett

"That's Pepper. He's our mascot."
- Kirk Hammett

"I don't think sucess has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans."
- Kirk Hammett

"In the time between albums, we wondered, 'How does Metallica fit into all this?' And then we realized we didn't fit into it at all, never have, never will."
- Kirk Hammett From Guitar World, July '96

"I didnt Snort it, I just Sniffed it."
- Kirk Hammett

"Lets turn everything up and play that way."
- Kirk Hammett

"Most of the riffs that end up on the track are just shit I come up with jamming at 3 in the morning."
- Kirk Hammett

"The main riff for 'SandMan' was just something I wrote one night."
- Kirk Hammett "Sold Out? Sure we've sold out, last tour we sold out almost everywhere we played"
- Kirk Hammett

"Let's see, I think the first thing we gotta to do is obviously, like you guys were expecting, is we gotta tank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year. Ha, Ha!!"
- Lars Ulrich From Grammy Awards, 1992

"I guess these things just went down in value, uh, if we can win one I guess anyone can, uh."
- Lars Ulrich from the MTV Music Awards, 1992

"As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica."
- Lars Ulrich from Metal Edge, 1996

"I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy."
- Lars Ulrich

"One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future."
- Lars Ulrich from So What!, Whiplash Section, Holiday Issue 1996

"...Metallica mythos...distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself..."
- Lars Ulrich from So What!, 1996

"Things are so deep and people are always trying to read shit into things that real simple. Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death."
- Lars Ulrich from So What!, 1996

"I don't like to be pigeonholded, and i really like that people never really know what's going on with Metallica."
- Lars Ulrich from So What, Holiday Issue 1996

"Dear «The Kids», Don't waste your precious holiday time sittin arround all this bullshit x lies, GO FUCK SHIT UP!! Lots 'O' Love. P.S. Happy whatever!"
- Lars Ulrich from So What, Holiday Issue 1996

"I tink if people sit down and consider the amount of dedication we put into what we do, we are at the paramount of that scale."
- Lars Ulrich from So What!, An interview with Lars Ulrich, Holidar Issue 1996

"Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whatever the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!"
- Lars Ulrich from So What, An interview with Lars Ulrich, Holiday Issue 1996

"The 'not-giving-a-fuck' meter is as far into the red-zone as ever before."
- Lars Ulrich from So What, Holiday Issue 1996

"We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn't play... We were just like 'Let's get together and play some cover songs, drink some vodka...' a year and a half later we were touring the world, releasing records."
- Lars Ulrich

"What's this all about? It's about music, it's not about anything else, it's not about having the coolest cover, or the coolest title, or about anything. it's just about music..."
- Lars Ulrich

"If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and just a natural and instinctual extension of your self, then there you go."
- Lars Ulrich

"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers."
- Lars Ulrich

"Isn't that the whole integrity of this fuckin' band to do different shit? We've always tried to avoid following what everyone else is doing, It's a challenge to come up with things that are original. It's not easy, but that's part of the fun."
- Lars Ulrich

"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."
- Lars Ulrich

"Our music comes from our hearts - And it always has."
- Lars Ulrich

"Right now we're stading at a massive point of rebirth."
- Lars Ulrich

"The new album will come out some time in november - Knock On Wood."
- Lars Ulrich

"We are going to hit the smaller cities on road after the release of the new album."
- Lars Ulrich

"Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth."
- Lars Ulrich

"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."
- Lars Ulrich

"If you want weight I'm your fucking guy."
- Lars Ulrich

"Get the fuck out of here!"
- Lars Ulrich

"Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death."
- Lars Ulrich

"They paint fucking white lines in the middle of the road and the cops tell you you can't drive there, but they don't do anything to prevent you like puting nails in the road."
- Lars Ulrich