Latest Lars Ulrich Quotes from Interviews

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• Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.

  Lars Ulrich

  Musician, Ability

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

  Lars Ulrich

  Thinking, Play, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a matter of love and not an exchange of equity.

  Lars Ulrich

  Hate, Matter, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.

  Lars Ulrich

  Growing, Way, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.

  Lars Ulrich

  Years, People, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I would say [Lamar] Kendrick, it`s always fun to see what happens when Kendrick takes the stage. And my two oldest kids are huge fans of him.

  Lars Ulrich

  Fun, Kids, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.

  Lars Ulrich

  West, Wild West, Music Business

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

  Lars Ulrich

  Communication, Balance, Trying

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it`s going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it`s like a train that`s moving and you don`t quite know where it`s going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.

  Lars Ulrich

  Attitude, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Hugh [Evans] called us. And obviously this has been on our radar for all the years it`s been going on. And each year obviously reaches more and more people, and it`s high profile. Hugh reached out to our manager just down the street. And we said we`re here [ on GLOBAL CITIZEN in the Central Park] to help and do whatever we can.

  Lars Ulrich

  Years, Central Park, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.

  Lars Ulrich

  Love Is, Rocks, Years

  Source: www.spin.com

• Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

  Lars Ulrich

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

• What Metallica always tries to do, as we go around and play a lot of the same cities, over and over again, year after year, is to give a different experience. We try to never play the same venues, or if we play indoors, we'll play outdoors, and all that type of stuff. It's always about just trying to do a different kind of experience.

  Lars Ulrich

  Years, Play, Cities

  "Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo and Producer Charlotte Huggins Talk METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER, 3D, Finding the Right Director, and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2013.

• I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

  Lars Ulrich

  Faces, Used, These Days

  "Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo and Producer Charlotte Huggins Talk METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER, 3D, Finding the Right Director, and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2013.