Cliff Burton's Quotes

Control your life through insanity.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

To live is to die.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'