Quotes by Kirk Hammett

Kirk Hammett

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

Unexplored

Worth Living

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It’s kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

Character

Fans

Together

After months of playing air guitar to ‘Free Bird’, what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of ‘Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Purple Haze.’ My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, ‘I’m going to get a guitar.’

Air Guitar

Brother

Stars

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

My Time

Percent

Rhythm

Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don’t know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio.

Guitar

Nice

Sound

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 in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

Play

Song

Thinking

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

Kind

Misunderstood

Sides

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff – you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there’s a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

Devil

Growing

Stuff

For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it’s cold and raining outside and there’s pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

Done

Perfect

Rain

For the ‘Load’ album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For ‘Hero of the Day’, I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp – again, they’re all blended.

Albums

Hero

Tone

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Accents

Air Guitar

Albums

All Time

All Time Favorite

Ashes

Aspect

Band

Battle

Black

Blood

Bored

Brother

Cat

Chance

Character

Complicated

Dark

Destructive

Devil

Difficult

Discovery

Done

Easy

Events

Evil

Fall

Fans

Fantastic

Fire

Firsts

Five Year Olds

Fortunate

Fragile Things

Gains

Growing

Guitar

Hate

Hero

Home

Horizon

Horror

House

Influence

Kind

Knowing

Legs

Levels

Mean

Metallica

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Quotes by Kirk Hammett

Kirk Hammett

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It’s kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

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

Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don’t know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio.

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 in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

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

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff – you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there’s a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it’s cold and raining outside and there’s pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

For the ‘Load’ album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For ‘Hero of the Day’, I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp – again, they’re all blended.

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