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Quotes by Dave Mustaine

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.”

“I think Id make a better president than George Bush. Ill tell you what, George Bush and Dick Cheney have been to jail more times than I have, and I used to shoot heroin, now what does that tell you?”

“If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure theyre full.”

“Its not how big your pencil is; its how you write your name.”

“Next thing you know theyll take your thoughts away.”

“Yesterdays answers has nothing to do with todays questions.”

“People in the music business, in America, are talking bad about Bush…you know what? Shut the f**k up! Youre a musician; you dont know a thing about running a country! If there would have been a better man to run the States right now, we would have picked him, its a democratic process. There are a couple of guys who run for office, everybody picks him, he goes to the next level. Shut up, hes the f**king president! Theres gonna be an election, if you dont like him go for the other guy. Dont sit back there and just piss and moan. I see all these guys like Michael Moore going off and Im like, Dude, you dont have a f***ing idea about what youre talking about.”

“Im kind of a huge asshole and....”

“I do have a feeling about bands that cannot get it on, ... When I was a kid, I had guitar heroes: Jimmy Page, Michael Schenker, Angus Young. Hot players. You cant name one guitar player in any of the new bands that is a virtuoso.”

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. Thats not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.

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

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.

I was always the new kid in school, Im the kid from a broken family, Im the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, Im the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

“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. Thats not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.”