Kirk Hammett Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.”

“When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.”

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

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

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

“I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.”

“I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.”

“The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.”

“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.”

“Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.”