Quotes by Kirk Hammett

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
– Kirk Hammett
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.
– 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 as being on a higher level than our fans.
– Kirk Hammett
I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!
– Kirk Hammett
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.
– Kirk Hammett
I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
– Kirk Hammett
I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing your fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan - I'm not into it. It's silly.
– Kirk Hammett
I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.
– Kirk Hammett
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
– Kirk Hammett
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
– Kirk Hammett
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
– Kirk Hammett
We're the underdogs. We haven't had a top ten hit, and we look like a bunch of bums out there. Amidst all this glam, and this huge production, we're going to stick it out. But that's what we're here for - and that's what put us here in the first place.
– Kirk Hammett