Black Sabbath Quotes
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That’s really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
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. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, Here’s this little guy with a monster-guitar sound. And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
Black Sabbath - one of the world’s universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi’s guitar sound. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
I tend to listen to the artists that originally inspired me to start playing music in the first place, because there is a multitude of wisdom that can be gained by bands like Black Sabbath, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and the Cure. I think if we were to pay close attention to what’s on the radio right now then we’d lose our identity entirely. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show (Black Sabbath Quotes)
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands (Black Sabbath Quotes)
In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn’t get to when I was younger (Black Sabbath Quotes)
It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, Hallelujah! I thought I’d found the meaning of life! (Black Sabbath Quotes)
There was so much good and different music back then and you’d just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
I’m jamming ‘Black Sabbath Vol. 4’ all the time. Zappa’s ‘Cruising With Ruben and The Jets.’ A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents’ ‘Duck Stab’ is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I’m pretty schizophrenic with records. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it’s not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it ‘Heaven and Hell’ right from the beginning. Because you listen to that ‘Heaven and Hell’ album, that doesn’t sound anything close to Black Sabbath. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that’s just where I came from. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You’ll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
I got into Dio when I was still quite young. I remember seeing the video for ‘Rainbow In The Dark’ on MTV. That was my first taste of Dio. It wasn’t until years later that I realized he had this whole career with Rainbow and Black Sabbath and even going back to Elf. When I saw that video, it instantly became one of my favorite songs. (Black Sabbath Quotes)
Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back (Black Sabbath Quotes)
When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15 (Black Sabbath Quotes)
No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, black Sabbath does. We don’t sell any records anymore (Black Sabbath Quotes)
With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song (Black Sabbath Quotes)
Who’s the new Ramones, who’s the new Guns ‘N Roses, who’s the new Motley Crue, who’s the new Black Sabbath? They’re coming, they’re on the street, they’re 16, 17 years old (Black Sabbath Quotes)
I took a private lesson, but it didn’t really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That’s really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath Quotes)
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band (Black Sabbath Quotes)
‘American Horror’ goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - ‘Flowers in the Attic’ paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like ‘Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.’ It even has ‘Go Ask Alice’-era urban legends (Black Sabbath Quotes)
There are some pop songs I hate but I can’t get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath Quotes)
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You’re either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first (Black Sabbath Quotes)
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