Kirk Hammett Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.”

“My musical tastes change every week.”

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

“I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.”

“It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.”

“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.”

“Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.”

“Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.”

“I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'”