Dave Mustaine Quotes & Sayings

Brother 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 Mustaine

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar. — Dave Mustaine

Clearly see you can't see Clear — Dave Mustaine

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 Mustaine

Life can only be understood in reverse
But must be lived forwards ...
I'm losing my senses — Dave Mustaine

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions. — Dave Mustaine

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

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

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

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

No, I care more about what God knows than what man says. — Dave Mustaine

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd. — Dave Mustaine

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

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

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat. — Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. — Dave Mustaine

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

So Far,So Good........................So What? — Dave Mustaine

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

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

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. — Dave Mustaine

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. — Dave Mustaine

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

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. — Dave Mustaine

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. — Dave Mustaine

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

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! — Dave Mustaine

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

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. — Dave Mustaine

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. — Dave Mustaine

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

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. — Dave Mustaine

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

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong. — Dave Mustaine

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. — Dave Mustaine

If you shake my hand, better count your fingers — Dave Mustaine

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. — Dave Mustaine

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head. — Dave Mustaine

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. — Dave Mustaine

I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not. — Dave Mustaine

Finally, I found what seemed at the time to be a lid of some sort. Presuming it was a toilet seat (but not really caring one way or the other) I lifted it up, then dropped my shorts and began to piss. Ahhh ... success. Then I stumbled back to bed and passed out. It wasn't until the next morning that I realized what had actually happened. I woke to the sight of Junior standing over my bed with a look of disgust on his face. Hey, man. Did you pee in my suitcase? — Dave Mustaine

My guitar was a loyal person to me. — Dave Mustaine

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

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. — Dave Mustaine

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! — Dave Mustaine

I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd. — Dave Mustaine

Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land — Dave Mustaine

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. — Dave Mustaine

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

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. — Dave Mustaine

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

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

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. — Dave Mustaine

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica. — Dave Mustaine

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

One-way ticket nowhere there's no windows on his train.
Can't see where I'm headed but I'm going there again. — Dave Mustaine

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 — Dave Mustaine

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

All bands eventually break up because of one or more of the four P's: power, property, prestiege, pussy. — Dave Mustaine

I need a hundred dollars and some suction — Dave Mustaine

Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense — Dave Mustaine

I'm not a great singer — Dave Mustaine

I let that swim around in my aching head for a few minutes - "the arsenal of megadeath ... the arsenal of megadeath" - and then, for some reason I can't quite explain, I began to write. Using a borrowed pencil and a cupcake wrapper, I wrote the first lyrics of my post-Metallica life. This song was called "Megadeth" (I dropped the second "a"), and though it would never find its way onto an album, it did serve as the basis for the song "Set the World Afire." It hadn't occured to me then that Megadeth-as used by Senator Cranston, megadeath referred to the loss of one million lives as a result of nuclear holocaust-might be a perfectly awesome name for a thrash metal band. — Dave Mustaine

Oh my God. I'm not Keith Richards. I'm Otis from Mayberry! A fucking drunk! — Dave Mustaine

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

I care about what the fans feel. — Dave Mustaine

I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica. — Dave Mustaine

When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine. — Dave Mustaine

I wouldn't vote for Obama. — Dave Mustaine