Kirk Hammett Quotes

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

Playing music and singing are my forms of meditation.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.

Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.