Explore Quotes by Kirk Hammett

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

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

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

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

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.

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

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

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.

I love 'True Blood.' I love 'The Walking Dead.' Those are fantastic series.

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.

I don't think success 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.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

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

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

My musical tastes change every week.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

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.