Top 50 Dave Mustaine Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Dave Mustaine

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2. “If I know I’m going crazy, I must not be insane.”

— Dave Mustaine

3. “It wasn’t enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.”

— Dave Mustaine

4. “It’s not how big your pencil is; it’s how you write your name.”

— Dave Mustaine

5. “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

6. “David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard.”

— Dave Mustaine

7. “Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense.”

— Dave Mustaine

8. “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

9. “Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land.”

— Dave Mustaine

10. “Yesterday’s answers has nothing to do with today’s questions.”

— Dave Mustaine

11. “Clearly see you can’t see Clear.”

— Dave Mustaine

12. “Next thing you know they’ll take your thoughts away.”

— Dave Mustaine

13. “My guitar was a loyal person to me.”

— Dave Mustaine

14. “When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.”

— Dave Mustaine

15. “I care more about what God knows than what man says.”

— Dave Mustaine

16. “Besides, the bass isn’t a difficult instrument to play. It’s like one step up from the kazoo, isn’t it?”

— Dave Mustaine

17. “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

18. “Megadeth doesn’t sound anything like Metallica.”

— Dave Mustaine

19. “God created whammy bars for people who don’t know how to solo.”

— Dave Mustaine

20. “One of my first records that I heard was ‘Wish You Were Here’ by Pink Floyd.”

— Dave Mustaine

21. “What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don’t? Hair.”

— Dave Mustaine

22. “I’m not a great singer.”

— Dave Mustaine

23. “If you shake my hand, better count your fingers.”

— Dave Mustaine

24. “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

25. “My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.”

— Dave Mustaine

26. “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

27. “If I were president of the United States, I’d build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.”

— Dave Mustaine

28. “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

29. “The sleeping feel no more pain. But the living are scarred.”

— Dave Mustaine

30. “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

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

— Dave Mustaine

32. “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

33. “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

34. “I care about what the fans feel.”

— Dave Mustaine

35. “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

36. “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

37. “I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.”

— Dave Mustaine

38. “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

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “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

43. “I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.”

— Dave Mustaine

44. “I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.”

— Dave Mustaine

45. “The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.”

— Dave Mustaine

46. “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

47. “I didn’t like the way I was let go from Metallica.”

— Dave Mustaine

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

— Dave Mustaine

49. “The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.”

— Dave Mustaine

50. “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