Geezer Butler Quotes
Top 29 wise famous quotes and sayings by Geezer Butler
Geezer Butler Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.
We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.
Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.
To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road.
It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.
Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.