Black Sabbath Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Rob Zombie

  Black, Firsts, Faster

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• When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

  David Pajo

  Iron, Black, Band

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Eagles, Black, Sabbath

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• 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!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fun, Drug, Black

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I started getting seriously into music when I was a kid. 1978 was my big year. It just hit home. That was before real metal. There was Black Sabbath and that kind of stuff, but the real underground, hard stuff wasn't even around yet. It was cool to watch that happen and latch onto the next edge of things every time that progression happened.

  Chris Reifert

  Real, Kids, Home

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  James Hetfield

  Moving, Guitar, Black

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• 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.

  Billy Corgan

  Guitar, Play, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.

  Henry Rollins

  Insecure, Artist, Hands

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• For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

  Tony Iommi

  Black, Strange, Young

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• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

  Phil Anselmo

  Letting Go, Song, Guitar

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• I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Night, 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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• I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  Black, Rolling, Zeppelins

  The New Yorker, September 09, 2002.

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• 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.

  Juanes

  Crazy, Rocks, Years

  "Colombian Singer Juanes Is a Savvy Businessman". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 26, 2007.

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• 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.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Song, Rocks, Play

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• People ask me if I'm influenced by British music, and I suppose I grew up listening to mostly British music - from new wave stuff through to heavy metal. Like, when I got into metal, it was Black Sabbath. I never really got into a lot of American rock. I appreciate some of it, but not much! Most of the great new wave music was coming out of Britain, and Germany. So maybe those influences have made their way into my music, and perhaps that's why I have this connection with people in Europe. But maybe it's something cosmic.

  Chino Moreno

  People, Appreciate, Black

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Jason C. Miller

  Artist, Thinking, Black

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• 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.

  Billy Corgan

  Years, Old Things, Black

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• Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.

  John Petrucci

  Names, Black, Coming Back

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• 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.

  M. Ward

  Ideas, Guitar, Interesting

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Bands who had different time signatures etc and for whatever reason, we morphed into Corrosion of Conformity. It's been about thirty years now.

  Reed Mullin

  Years, Play, Purple

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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