102 Quotes by Kirk Hammett

The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.

I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

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.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.