Cliff Burton

“Control your life through insanity.”

“We're a band that's grown up with each other. We're not going to be able to be a band that's going to be able to get another member and be the same.”

“I just do what I want to do. I don't really care what everybody else thinks.”

“When I started, I decided I was going to be a bass player and that was it. I'd practice six to eight hours a day.”

“We're trying to do something different. That's what it's all about.”

“To me, style is just whatever you feel like. Whatever you feel like wearing, that's what you should do.”

“We're four individuals who have a common goal. We like to get together and create something that is really powerful and something that we enjoy.”

“You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.”

“I don't think that playing fast is the whole thing. It's a combination of things. It's the aggression, the attitude.”

“I wear what I want. It's not a statement. It's just clothing.”

“We do what we want to do, we don't give a shit, and it's worked.”

“My influences have been everything from the usual classical stuff to all kinds of jazz. I'm not a big fan of the kind of jazz that's like a scale. I like the more dissonant, weird stuff.”

“We're not trying to be the heaviest band in the world, we're trying to be the best.”