Kirk Hammett Quotes

"We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances."
- Kirk Hammett
(Related: Hate)

"My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head."
- Kirk Hammett

"Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo."
- Kirk Hammett

"I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!"
- Kirk Hammett
(Related: Death)

"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
(Related: Time, Direction, Guitar, Now)

"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
(Related: Success, People, Being, Fans, First)

"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties."
- Kirk Hammett
(Related: Guitar)

"I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!"
- Kirk Hammett
(Related: Love, Death)