Dave Mustaine

Dave Mustaine is the lead singer and guitarist of Megadeth .

Quotations

"God created wang bars for people who don't know how to solo." - Interview with "Masters of Metal and Hard Rock" magazine

"I reached the point in the end where I didn't want to see another fader, and the only knob I wanted to play with was my own." -on remastering Rust in Peace

"Never, you don’t put a bumper sticker on Mercedes-Benz. I’ve always been the antithesis of what’s popular. If you can go into a library and the girl in there has her nipples pierced and chained together with a bunch of shrunken heads hanging off her eyebrow, then it’s gotten pretty boring. If I go into the hospital and the doctor has a face tattoo and a goatee I’m out of there. I have nothing against people who have tattoos I think body art is beautiful in fact a full page of the Megadeth website is devoted to people with body art. But for me I’m 42 so if I had a tattoo, a couple of decades from now it’s going to be a purple lump on my ass." -interview on why he doesn't have any tattoos

"I met Lars through an ad in Recycler, a local classified ads newspaper, the ad read 'Looking for a guitar player influenced by Motorhead and Iron Maiden'. I called the ad and told him some of the bands I liked, and I mentioned Budgie , and Lars said, 'Fuck man, you like Budgie!' (mimicking Lars' Danish accent). So I went to his house and sat in his bedroom and we smoked a little pot next to a huge stack of Danish pornography and licorice, and I thought 'This is interesting for a teenager to have this much Danish porno', but I didn't ask any questions. And then I remembered Lars introducing James to me as their singer, and I looked at James and thought 'Aren't front-men supposed to be sexy?'" -on joining Metallica

"Even though I've found God, I still love blow jobs, and I still say fuck."

"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."

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

”There are a lot of good guys out there. I listen to some of these bands and I’m thinkin’, 'If the singer didn’t sing like that…' There’s a great groundswell of talent in Norway and Sweden. I heard this one band and the guitar player was just ripping and then I looked on the internet and the guy’s got hair down to his waist, he’s covered in tattoos and piercing and his face is painted black and white – fuck that! Walking around with an Oreo cookie for a head. An Oreo is two black cookies with a white cream filling. If I picked a guitar player and he showed up looking like that, I wouldn’t answer the door! You’d see my redheaded ass goin’ over the back fence!” -on Black Metal bands

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

"Lars himself has baited me by saying he wishes I would be more experimental. Now, does he mean experimental as in kissing and frenching my lead guitar player or my drummer? Is he talking about painting my nails, wearing makeup and cutting off all my hair? I don't know..."

"I remember the day that you and I talked about digging a hole in the fucking dirt and smoking hash through the ground." -Some Kind of Monster

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

“Life, death, sex; what else is there? A beer maybe."

"I think I'd make a better president than George Bush. I'll 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?"

"Clinton said back in college he smoked weed but didn't inhale. That's like saying... okay... you put a dick in your mouth, but you don't suck. That's the logic..."

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

“Gossip; Even the name hisses. Kinda like the words ‘assholes’ or ‘pussies’, huh?”

“If I were a president, I’d build a wall across the Mexican border , kick out all the immigrants and party all night.”

"There are some girls backstage that are like walking pap smears."

"I didn't care if the fucking Capitol tower fell on its side and rolled into the ocean with everyone in it. I have never seen such a display of hateful, selfish, self-centered fucks in my life."

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

"Listen, I have no clue who you are, but we both know who I am, so shut the fuck up and listen to my music!"

"Osama Bin Laden is a fucking cunt. Imagine what it would be like to be him and wake up outside his little tent or cave and see an army getting ready to beat his ass."

"I was sitting in my hotel room, with a copy of your rock magazine (Kerrang) and I didn't know whether to read it...or wipe my ass with it!"

"I think that Britney has blown more things than the gearbox on her Ferrari lately and Christina is living proof that you can polish a turd."

"I think that guitarist from Queensryche looks a hell of a lot like Jamie Lee Curtis ."

"I knew that if it ever came down to one of us running for president, we'd get a hell of a lot of votes."

"I guess I don't have a problem with him. I mean, if I saw him drowning, I'd pull him out...after he went under a couple times."-on Kirk Hammett

"The band's name means the act of dying, but, like, really mega." -on Megadeth

"...Glam Rock means Gay L.A. Music."

"I'm over it now, and I can see how hard he tries to do what he does. I mean I think he makes good use of what talent he has." -on Hammett

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

"If you've never had them, it feels like getting a porcupine pulled backwards through your dick" (On Kidney stones)

"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!" - on recording The System Has Failed

"I'm a fighter. I don't quit. I'm probably going to record when I'm dead 'Live from his coffin'." - on the nerve injury to his arm that brought his career to a halt