"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

#Fall Quotes #Player Quotes #Race Quotes

“I've been out on the periphery.”
“There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.”
“I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!”

Source : Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“Nobody is delineated, nobody is concentrated. There is a lot of extraneous stuff. Like for instance, the satellites that measure in the atmosphere, there is billions and billions and billions of bytes of data, only maybe 2% of which are actually useful. They don't know what the rest are for, they don't know what good they are.”

Source : Source: medium.com
“Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight”
“We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.”
“You know what, life is full of temptations”

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