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.
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar. - Kirk Hammett
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
- Kirk Hammett
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. - Kirk Hammett
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic as… - Kirk Hammett
Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic as…
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha! - Kirk Hammett
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 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 a… - Kirk Hammett
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 a…
I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy. - Kirk Hammett
I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head. - Kirk Hammett
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living. - Kirk Hammett
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
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… - Kirk Hammett
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…
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