Dave Mustaine Quotes

I 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.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

Yesterday 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.

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

People 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

If I'm gonna commit suicide, I'll go out eatin' pussy to death.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

No matter how beautiful a girl is, she still shits.

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.

Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.

To 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.

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!

Pop 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.

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

I 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.

When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.

I 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.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

I 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.

Some 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.

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

When mankind goes back to treating people the way you want to be treated, things will settle, I don't see that happening. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

Buckethead [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.

Mogami 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!

I care more about what God knows than what man says.

God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

So Far,So Good........................So What?

If you shake my hand, better count your fingers

Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.

We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

I 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.

My 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.

Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?

Well, 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.

Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense

I'm not a great singer

Clearly see you can't see Clear

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.