Kirk Hammett Time Quotations

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 fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.

Technology has given us convenience, but at the same time it's making musicians work harder in that if you really want to make money making music and selling albums, you have to go out there and perform. And hope you sell stuff like merch, and get on YouTube, and all the other ancillary sort of things that go along with that.

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.