Jason Newsted famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.
-- Jason Newsted

#Leaving #Never Regret #Metallica
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 #Signatures #Bass
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
I don't play video games.
-- Jason Newsted

#Games #Play #Video
I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.
-- Jason Newsted

#Real #Play #Waste
The past is where its supposed to be.
-- Jason Newsted

#Past
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 #Looks #Firsts
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
I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.
-- Jason Newsted

#Nice #Band
All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.
-- Jason Newsted

#Men #Rocks #Forever
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
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
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 #Greed #Ego
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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