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James Alan Hetfield is an American musician and songwriter best known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for the American heavy metal band Metallica. Hetfield is mainly known for his intricate rhythm playing, but occasionally performs lead guitar duties and solos, both live and in the studio. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering an advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler. Metallica has won nine Grammy Awards and released ten studio albums, three live albums, four extended plays and 24 singles.

In 2009, Hetfield was ranked at no. 8 in Joel McIver's book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists and no. 24 by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. In Guitar World's poll, Hetfield was placed as the 19th greatest guitarist of all time, as well as being placed second in The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists poll of the same magazine. Rolling Stone placed Hetfield as the 87th greatest guitarist of all time. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. August 1963
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Famous James Hetfield Quotes

“Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.”

James Hetfield

Playboy, April 2001

“I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.”

James Hetfield

Playboy, April 2001

“All the drinking and all the other junk that I was stuck in… It was so predictable. So boring. I wake up the next day - somewhere, in some bed, I don't know who this person is next to me… and I'm drunk, competely hung over and have a show to do. The result is the same… When life now is pretty… exciting. You don't know what's gonna happen.”

James Hetfield

Some Kind of Monster, 2003 - Talking about his addictions and big changes.

“Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.”

James Hetfield

at St Quentin during the videoshoot for St Anger

“If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead — and I'd much rather be alive.”

James Hetfield

at St Quentin, during the videoshoot for St Anger

“Lars would talk his way into their pants. Kirk had a babyface that was appealing to the girls. And Cliff; he had a big dick. Word got around about that, I guess.”

James Hetfield

James Hetfield - Playboy April 2001.

“Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.”

James Hetfield

MusiCares, May 14, 2006

“It had to be something real bad. I think he stole music online.”

James Hetfield

Asked what the narrator in "Ride The Lightning" did to earn the death penalty
[James Hetfield And Kirk Hammett Look Back On Metallica's "Ride The Lightning", http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/06/metallica_ride_the_lightning_interview.php?page=2, Village Voice, 20 June 2012]

“I am the table!”

James Hetfield

"The View", Lulu, 2011
["The View" by Lou Reed & Metallica", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJlU_9Vyvqs, Music, 2 December 2011]

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