A biography for Dave Mustainehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.”
“Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.”
“Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.”
“I am interested in politics.”
“I wouldn't vote for Obama.”
“No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.”
“When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.”
“What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.”
“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.”
“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.”
“One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.”
“I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.”
“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.”
“My guitar was a loyal person to me.”
“Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.”
“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.”
“Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.”
“I care about what the fans feel.”
“I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.”