Quotes by Robert Trujillo - Page 2

You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Embrace
Metallica
Best People Feel
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With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Bass
Tone
Dynamic
Instrument
Sing
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You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Be Careful
Wanna
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'Some Kind of Monster' is a challenge, and 'Through the Never' is an extension of that. Even the album we made with Lou Reed, it was a challenge.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Album
Reed
Extension
Monster
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One of the things that I've noticed since I've been in the band is that, as players, Lars, James, and Kirk truly enjoy making music and performing.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
James
Noticed
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With our fans, a lot of times, people get upset because maybe they didn't get what they wanted, whatever. But we always write the songs for us, number one.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Upset
People Fans Always
Times People
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Sabbath is always some of the best music ever. And the reason is because it grooves. It's funky. It's heavy. It's got lots of great changes, twists, and turns.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Funky
Groove
Heavy
Sabbath
Twists
Best Music Great
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You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Percent
Be Yourself
Gotta
Onstage
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We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Black Sabbath
Sabbath
No Secret
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You can make an album, and people won't get it. Or won't connect with it. Or won't - whatever is going on in the universe at that time, it doesn't really register.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Register
Universe
Album
Connect
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It's always nice, no matter what style of music, as long as it's grooving and you feel that, I feel that's what makes... part of what makes a great song, for sure.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Great Song
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Jaco Pastorius gave the bass a new voice. I mean, he was very inspired by singers like Frank Sinatra. And in a lot of ways, maybe he wanted to be a singer himself.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Frank
Sinatra
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I've always been a fan of animation. As a kid, I used to watch a lot of the Saturday-morning cartoons, and I was always a fan of even claymation and that whole medium.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Animation
Cartoons
Medium
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I like that Metallica has found a way to have these non-pedestrian arrangements but then the vocal melody is strong and intense. I've always appreciated that as a fan.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Appreciated
Arrangements
Intense
Melody
Metallica
Vocal
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'Tallica Parking Lot' is, basically, roughly about a four-minute animated short which is centered around the parking lot of Metallica, and that can be anywhere in the world.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Animated
Metallica
Parking
Parking Lot
Anywhere
Basically
Centered
Roughly
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We absolutely cherish our kids. But the fact that we all have them - it's definitely created an additional bond. It's not just Metallica - it's our families. And we also have Metallica.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Cherish
Metallica
Absolutely
Additional
Bond
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We enjoy playing small shows, big shows, whatever. There's the energy of the visual production, and all that stuff starts to happen, so when you see it come to life, it's pretty exciting.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Visual
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Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Drummer
Tennis
Tennis Player
Jazz Musicians
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There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar. Soon I realized that bass was what was really grooving me.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Different Styles
Jazz
Motown
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Dad Guitar Me
Led
Led Zeppelin
Realized
Soon
Styles
Zeppelin
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I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had some stuff that was punk rock, ska, but then we had a lot of funk in there.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Funk
Groove
Punk Rock
Infectious
Nineties
Styles
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I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Inspirational
Metallica
Physical Thing
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I've been a baseball fan in the early part of my life, so through the '70s and the '80s, I was a huge fan. I actually followed the Dodgers back then, back in the Kirk Gibson years, Steve Garvey.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Dodgers
Life My Life Back
Followed
Gibson
Huge Fan
Steve
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What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part of the journey I'm on with Metallica, there's just a certain edge that needs to be there.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Heavy
Metallica
Edge
Listener
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Lemmy is, I think, for anybody in the world of rock n' roll - you don't have to be a bass player - he is a pioneer, and he was true to his music and also the lover of a lot of different styles of music.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Different Styles
Music World True
Bass Player
Lover
Pioneer
Styles
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We used to go to Palm Springs, ditch school when I was in eleventh grade, and go hang out poolside with our ghetto blaster and listen to Pat Metheny 'Offramp' and kind of trip out on a lot of his music.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Ghetto
Springs
Palm
Music School Go
Ditch
Grade
Pat
Trip
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I don't generally like things that are too pedestrian. But at the same time, and if I'm in the right mood, hey - I ain't gonna lie - I listen to Joni Mitchell. I listen to 'Blue,' I listen to Miles Davis.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Blue
Hey
Miles
Mood
Davis
Joni Mitchell
Mitchell
Pedestrian
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Traditionally, the role of the bass player was just to keep things simple and solid, so it's really a special thing when you can get a player that can actually bring in a lot of presence and also a visual presence, too.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Visual
Bass Player
Solid
Presence
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To have the opportunity to bring 'Tallica Parking Lot' to life through images was really special. And also to have a lot of my heroes and my friends in the film was really, really special. People like Lemmy from Motorhead.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Parking
Parking Lot
Heroes
Life Opportunity People
Images
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I've been friends with Jaco Pastorius's son since 1996 - Johnny Pastorius, the eldest son. And I remember when I first met him, I said, 'Some day, you've gotta make a film about your father,' because his influence is so broad.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Eldest
Remember When
Broad
Johnny
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I play in Metallica, and I have fun in Metallica. I tell you, I am the luckiest man on the planet because we have a good time and we're happy. When we put on our guitars, we're teenagers again, and that's where the fun comes in.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Metallica
Time Good Man
Guitars
Have Fun
Luckiest
Teenagers
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Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Elitist
Fusion
Music Myself Day
Bass Player
Gravitate
Instrumental
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My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body, I could play it. So I kind of played on that for about a year, learning scales and all that. And here I am.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Hollow
Scales
About A Year
Amp
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The first album I ever bought was Santana's 'Abraxas.' Obviously, I was a huge fan of Carlos because he had the unique guitar sound, and he had incorporated a lot of the percussion and really, really fun rhythmic bass lines in there, too.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Percussion
Huge Fan
Incorporated
Rhythmic
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The great thing about Santa Monica civic auditorium was it was a place you could ride your bike to. In this case, my dad dropped me and my friends off, and we'd go see Ronnie James Dio or Jean-Luc Ponty or Weather Report or the Pretenders.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Dad
Bike
Monica
Santa
Santa Monica
Weather
Great Dad Me
Auditorium
Report
Case
Civic
Dropped
Great Thing
James
Pretenders
Ride
Ronnie
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A lot of the hardcore fans wanna hear the deep cuts - songs like 'Orion' or maybe like a 'Disposable Heroes' - you know, songs that we don't play all the time - and then, of course, they wanna hear 'Sandman' and 'Nothing Else Matters' and some of the hits.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Disposable
Hardcore
Wanna
Cuts
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I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Elimination
Nurturing
Time Great Long
Consolidate
Great Ideas
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Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when it comes to the Eagles, he's there to play guitar, and he's there to supply whatever is needed for that band, and that is what I feel with Metallica.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Eagles
Metallica
Joe
Singer Songwriter
Supply
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Bill Ward, when you hear his beats, he's not just playing a straight 4/4 beat; he's doing almost a hip-hop beat. There's a song called 'Sweet Leaf.' The drum beat that he's playing, he's trying to kind of swing and funkify it. Now, is he doing a great job of it? Maybe not. Maybe.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Beats
Great Job
Hip Hop
Drum
Leaf
Swing
Ward
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'Frayed Ends Of Sanity' off the 'Justice' album is a song that I really wanted to play with the band, and for years and years, I was always like, 'Let's play this song!' But I'll tell you something: I started working on that song almost from the very first time I joined the band.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Band
First Time
Sanity
Album
Joined
Years And Years
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When I first heard the song 'Eruption,' which is Eddie Van Halen's most famous solo composition, I was confused because it sounded incredible, but I didn't know what it was. I didn't know if it was a guitar. I didn't know if it was a synthesizer or a keyboard. I couldn't figure it out.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Famous
Composition
Confused
Eruption
Heard
Solo
Eddie
Figure
Halen
Synthesizer
Van
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You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different. Why is that? Because it's more in tune with jazz arrangements. It's very different. It's not a traditional rock and roll production, in terms of the drums.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Arrangements
Metallica
Rock And Roll
Swinging
Tune
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It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Metallica
Maintain
Schedule
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Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Hendrix
Change Things
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There is a lot of energy between Lars and James, and sometimes that energy can erupt. I know that before I was in the band, Kirk was the guy who was often in the middle, and it was important at that time. And now I feel like sometimes I'm the guy that's in the middle between not just James and Lars, but even Kirk.
Robert Trujillo / Bassist
Erupt
James
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