Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking
Dave MustainePop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.
Dave MustaineThe guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
Dave MustaineTo me, the most important thing was to treat people the way you want to be treated. Some people say that I'm a mean person. Well, you know what? The person that's saying that is probably a dipshit and I put them in their place! I have a knack for doing that.
Dave MustaineDude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.
Dave MustaineWhen I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.
Dave MustaineI 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.
Dave MustaineMy mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.
Dave MustaineBesides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?
Dave MustaineDavid Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard
Dave MustaineI collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
Dave MustaineBrother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'
Dave MustaineI was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
Dave MustainePenelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her.
Dave MustaineBuckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.
Dave MustainePeople say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica
Dave MustaineI guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
Dave MustaineYesterday evening I received a call that a person had located a body and the investigators from SDSD Homicide Division described our beloved mother, Sally Estabrook. Thank you all for your prayers, your good thoughts, and positive vibes.
Dave MustaineI watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the way that he just truly went with his voice.
Dave MustaineWhat do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
Dave MustaineMegadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.
Dave MustaineWell, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.
Dave MustaineI want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
Dave MustaineWhen people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine.
Dave MustainePlaying acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.
Dave MustaineMogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!
Dave MustaineSome years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.
Dave MustaineIf I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.
Dave MustaineI went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.
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