Geezer Butler Quotes
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The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
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I went vegetarian when I was about… 8 years old. One day I cut this piece of meat open and blood came out of it, and I realized, I asked my mother, 'Where did this come from?,' and she said, 'From animals,' and that was it.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.
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Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
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If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.
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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.
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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.
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Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
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I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
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It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.
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However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.
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I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.
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Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
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It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.
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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.
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I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
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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.
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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.