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" Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate. "

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" Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. "

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" My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head. "

" Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood. "

" I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks. "

" On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version. "

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" Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror. "

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" Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm. "

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" I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark. "

" Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix. "

" When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react. "

" I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, 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. "

" If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere. "

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" I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive. "

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" There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach. "

" Technology has given us convenience, but at the same time it's making musicians work harder in that if you really want to make money making music and selling albums, you have to go out there and perform. And hope you sell stuff like merch, and get on YouTube, and all the other ancillary sort of things that go along with that. "

" When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist. "

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" It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. "