Jason Newsted Quotes

• 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.

  Jason Newsted

  Years, People, Albums

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• I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

  Jason Newsted

  Leaving, Never Regret, 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.

  Jason Newsted

  Justice, Bass, Cliffs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The past is where its supposed to be.

  Jason Newsted

  Past, Supposed To Be

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• I don't play video games.

  Jason Newsted

  Games, Play, Video

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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.

  Jason Newsted

  Play, Interaction With Others, Greed

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• I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

  Jason Newsted

  Nice, Band

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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.

  Jason Newsted

  Growing Up, Kids, Play

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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.

  Jason Newsted

  Song, Firsts, Looks

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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.

  Jason Newsted

  Real, Thinking, Play

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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 Newsted

  Song, Art, Writing

  "New Shoes to Fill". Interview with Erik Fong, voivod.net. April 8, 2003.

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• All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

  Jason Newsted

  Men, Rocks, Forever

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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.

  Jason Newsted

  Kids, Kissing, Three

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• You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?

  Jason Newsted

  People, Together, Four

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• I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

  Jason Newsted

  Real, Play, Waste

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• I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

  Jason Newsted

  Thinking, Say Anything, Want

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