Jason Newsted quotes
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“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.”
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“I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.”
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“When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.”
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“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.”
-- Jason NewstedSource : "New Shoes to Fill". Interview with Erik Fong, voivod.net. April 8, 2003.
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“I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.”
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“To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.”
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“I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.”
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“I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.”
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“All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.”
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“I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.”
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“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.”
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“I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.”
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“I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.”
-- Jason Newsted
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