Geezer Butler Quotes

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

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.

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!

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

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.

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.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

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.

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 would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

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.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

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.

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.