Kirk Hammett Quotes

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

I think a lot of people are too safe in the makeup industry.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

What I have learned about Metallica is that it's all about taking chances and challenges.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

I think it's really important for actors to add some shock value to whatever they do. I think the audience gets bored very easily, and it's really important to keep experimenting.