Geezer Butler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Player #Bass #Saws
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.
-- Geezer Butler

#Roots #Band #Made
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.
-- Geezer Butler

#Boys #Poison #Band
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
-- Geezer Butler

#Hair #Band #Calling
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about
-- Geezer Butler

#Writing #Thinking #Want
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.
-- Geezer Butler

#Song #Rehearsal #Knocking
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started
-- Geezer Butler

#Bass #Sabbath
If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling
-- Geezer Butler

#Feelings #Too Much #Polish
I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me
-- Geezer Butler

#Nice #Years #Married
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
-- Geezer Butler

#Guitar #Play #Want
I never try and sound like Sabbath
-- Geezer Butler

#Trying #Sound #Sabbath
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in
-- Geezer Butler

#Frustrated #Musical #Albums
When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant
-- Geezer Butler

#Band #Citing #Influence
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.
-- Geezer Butler

#Disappointment #War #Fighting
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.
-- Geezer Butler

#Challenges #Albums #Would Be
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
Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
-- Geezer Butler

#Son #Doubt #Mets
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.
-- Geezer Butler

#Funny #Song #Couple
I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
-- Geezer Butler

#Reality #Deals #Reality Of Life
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.
-- Geezer Butler

#Soccer #Play #Watches
It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.
-- Geezer Butler

#Running #World #Matter
Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
-- Geezer Butler

#Listening #Albums #Jazz
The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
-- Geezer Butler

#Black #Albums #Keyboards
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.
-- Geezer Butler

#Uncles #Aunt #Night

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