Jason Curtis Newsted Quotes

• When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff’s work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

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• To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really – well there’s plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

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• I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

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• I play the real instruments. I don’t waste my time with anything else.

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• I don’t play video games.

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• After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, ‘OK, this is as far as I’m taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.’ I was ready to kind of hang it up.

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• A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I’m going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I’ve spread through my performance and through the time that I’ve spent with fans.

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• The past is where its supposed to be.

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• Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

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• It all has to do with art – writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry – things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.

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• I’m busier than a busy person. People aren’t scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it’s the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

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• I thought I’d do something nice for the band… I’ll hang myself.

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• I ended up gettin’ a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss – I liked Gene the best.

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• ‘I don’t want to grow up,’ Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

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• All I want you to do is rock. That’ll be forever, man.

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Jason Curtis Newsted (15)

Birth:	4th March, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Bassist

About

Jason Curtis Newsted was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA. He is an American bassist, known for being the second recording bass guitarist with the band Metallica from October 1986 until his departure in January 2001, as well as being a part of Voivod and Flotsam and Jetsam. After leaving Metallica he continued with his project Echobrain, played with Ozzy Osbourne and joined heavy metal band Voivod. From 2012 to 2014 he played in his self-titled band Newsted, for which he provided lead vocals as well as bass.

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