"I remember this guy lit my couch on fire a couple of times."---James

"I could just see them go, 'oh my God! Look at that guy!' The thing that stuck them most
was that while you see lead guitar-playing, here you had a guy playing lead bass! They
thought that was great."---MetallicA drum tech, Marrs, on the first time James and Lars saw
Cliff play

"To this day, I think about him every day."---Kirk, 1988

"We always miss Cliff, but he is kind of on the record (...And Justice For All.) The song "To
Live Is To Die" is really based on a number of riffs that Cliff wrote a couple of years ago. It's
kind of cool to have something written by Cliff on the new album."---Lars

"He was a great and very special talent...Cliff's solos were absolutely brilliant."---Jason

"Knowing Cliff's attitude, he'd kick our butts if we quit."---James (on continuing after
Cliff's death)

"I know Cliff, more than anyone else in the band, would have been the first guy to give us a
kick in the ass, and wouldn't want us to sit around. It's what he would have wanted us to
do."---Lars

"He was always against looking too posey, he was always into just looking natural."---Kirk

"...we came up here and played with Cliff, who just blew the doors off of anyone we've ever
played with. He's the new Steve Harris of metal."---Dave Mustaine

"Cliff had a lot of very loyal fans, including me."---Jason

"I had seen Cliff in this band called Easy Street when I was like 16 years old at a club called
International Cafe in San Francisco...It always stuck out in my mind. This guy with wild, wild
red hair flying all over the place and a Rickenbacker and a real distinct bass style and I
thought to myself, 'This guy is fucking' wild!"---Kirk

"There was a huge shadow there. I'd always looked up to him so much."---Jason (upon
replacing Cliff)

"People probably thought, 'Oh they're not going to do the heavy lyrics now because of what
happened.' Man, those lyrics mean a lot more to me now."---James

"If we had hung it up, Cliff would've been pissed off."---Kirk

"In Denmark while recording Master Of Puppets, we hung out a lot. We'd go out and play
poker for 8 hours straight after being up for 24 hours. We'd find a seafood restaurant that
was open, eat raw oysters and drink beer, scream at the natives while we were drunk...that's
some of my best memories of him."---Kirk