Jason Newsted Quotes

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.

Everybody says they were 'born to sing' but you can suss the good from the bad. You can tell who's in it for the music.

I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano.

I always put my best into our live performances and most of all it is always important for us to keep true to what we do as BABYMETAL.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.

I feel like I'm playing the washboard more than the guitar.

I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?

We make music that we believe in. That's all it is.