Black Sabbath Quotes

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  If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  Lars Ulrich

  Morning, Fun, Boys

  "Skynyrd, Sabbath, Blondie join rock's elite". The Associated Press, www.today.com. March 14, 2006.

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• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  Ville Valo

  Beautiful, Kids, Years

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• Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Black, Done

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• Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  People, Guy, Black

  "Ozzy Osbourne: I'm the Luckiest Man in the World". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2014.

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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.

  Geezer Butler

  Black, Bass, Sabbath

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• 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.

  Nikki Sixx

  Gun, Years, Rose

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• Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

  Jello Biafra

  Black, Stuff, Born

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• 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.

  Greg Ginn

  Thinking, Purple, Black

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• I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

  Dave Grohl

  Black, Band, Debt

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

  Kip Winger

  Fun, Guitar, Hands

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• 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.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Years, People

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• I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

  Peter Steele

  Black, Band, Lines

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• 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.

  Chad Smith

  Work Out, Black, Band

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• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

  Eddie Trunk

  Black, Opinion, Heavy Metal

  "Eddie Trunk Slams The Grammy’s: 'They Just Have No Clue At All When It Comes To Rock And Heavy Metal'". Interview with Ben Smith, eddietrunk.com. January 27, 2014.

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• 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 didnt get to when I was younger.

  Rick Rubin

  Rocks, Black, Stuff

  Interview with Anthony Kiedis, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 29, 2010.

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• The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Dream, Art, Kings

  FaceBook post by Ronnie James Dio from Sep 06, 2012

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• '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.

  Rob Sheffield

  Flower, Night, Urban Legends

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• They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

  Rob Halford

  Years, League, Black

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• I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fun, Writing, Black

  Source: www.nola.com

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

  Geezer Butler

  Style, Black, Horizon

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• If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

  Chris Cornell

  Kids, Black, Rolling

  "Chris Cornell: 'As a performer, I'm able to do what I want'" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• 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.

  Henry Rollins

  Voice, Guitar, Black

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• There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

  Henry Rollins

  Missing, Black, Should

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• 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.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Hate, Thinking

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• How could I resist? Look, I love that record and have nothing but great, great memories of my time with BLACK SABBATH . Tony was really busy but got his solos to me at the last minute as he promised and they are just fantastic. I think BLACK SABBATH fans will be over the moon when they hear what he's done. As for Roger and Ian , well, they just sound great on this song so it really did become 'Black Purple'. Personally, I love the irony of it all.

  Ian Gillan

  Song, Memories, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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