Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."
---Cliff Burton---
"Cliff Burton was the man who had that wild spirit that makes a band like Metallica a quality band. He wasn't only the bass player, or someone else in the band who co-write the songs, he was the man who made Metallica reach the sky. After his death, Metallica sold their souls for fame and fortune, things that he would never wanted to deal with. He'd never allowed all that "Black Album" to happen, and neither that damn "Load" thing. When Metallica lost their bass player, they also lost their soul."
The thing that struck them most was that while you see lead guitar playing, here you had a guy playing lead bass!
They thought that was great".
---Metallica's drum tech, Marrs, on the first time Jaymz and Lars saw Cliff play.---
---Jason Newsted---
---James Hetfield---
'this guy is fuckin' wild!'"
---Kirk Hammett---
He's the new Steve Harris of metal".
---Dave Mustaine---
The song 'To live is to die' is really based on a number of riffs that Cliff wrote a couple of years ago.
It's kind of cool to have something written by Cliff in the new album."
---Lars Ulrich---
---Jason Newsted, about replacing Cliff---
'Oh, they're not going to do the heavy lyrics now because of what happened.'
Man, those lyrics mean a lot more to me now."
---James Hetfield, after Cliff's death---
---Kirk Hammet---
would have been the first guy to give us a kick in the ass, and wouldn't want us to sit around.
It's what he would have wanted us to do."
---Lars Ulrich---
---James Hetfield, on continuing after Cliff's death---
We'd go out and play poker for 8 hours straight after being up for 24 hours.
We'd find a seafood restaurant that was open,
eat raw oysters and drink beer,
scream at the natives while we were drunk...
that's some of my best memories of him."
---Kirk Hammet---
and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer"
---Cliff Burton---
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