Dave Mustaine Quotes #1

“I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.”

“If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.”

“Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.”

"When you've been selling records for 20 years and you've sold millions of records and you're a legend and you've created something as big as an entire guitar playing style, which is quite an undertaking, then come and tell me how to do my job."

"Being on the road hasn't tarnished our viewpoints toward women. If anything, it's made us better in bed."

"Osama Bin Laden is a fucking cunt. Imagine what it would be like to be him and wake up outside his little tent or cave and see an army getting ready to beat his ass."

“It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.”

"...Glam Rock means Gay L.A. Music."

"I was playing music to get free drinks and free women, and it worked."

"The solo doesn't mean anything if there's not a song to go around it."

"The next person you see throwing something onstage, hit him. If he's too big, throw him up here, and I'll hit him!"

“I do have a feeling about bands that cannot get it on, ... When I was a kid, I had guitar heroes: Jimmy Page, Michael Schenker, Angus Young. Hot players. You can't name one guitar player in any of the new bands that is a virtuoso.”

“I'm kind of a huge asshole and....”

“Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.”

"I can see that it might be hard for other people who think they're too big to do shit like that. It isn't out of context for us. We'd play at a gas station if we could."

"...I would rather have my testicles eaten by Hannibal Lechter than tour with them again."

"Listen, I have no clue who you are, but we both know who I am, so shut the fuck up and listen to my music!"

"I think that James (Metallica) and I are very much the same man. I think that we grabbed an angel, split him in half, and both of us are possessing that power."

“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.”

“I think I'd make a better president than George Bush. I'll tell you what, George Bush and Dick Cheney have been to jail more times than I have, and I used to shoot heroin, now what does that tell you?”

"I knew that if it ever came down to one of us running for president, we'd get a hell of a lot of votes."

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