Geezer Butler Quotes

• 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

  Music, Boys, Poison

  "GEEZER BUTLER - 'The '80's Were The Worst Period For Metal'". Metal Exiles Interview, bravewords.com. March 24, 2005.

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

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  Player, Bass, Saws

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• 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.

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  Roots, Band, Made

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

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  Running, World, Matter

  "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.

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• If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

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  Feelings, Too Much, Polish

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• 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.

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  Disappointment, War, Fighting

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

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  Son, Doubt, Mets

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• 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.

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  Song, Rehearsal, Knocking

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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.

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  Black, Bass, Sabbath

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• I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.

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  Reality, Deals, Reality Of Life

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• Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

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  Listening, Albums, Jazz

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

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  Hair, Band, Calling

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

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  Black, Albums, Keyboards

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

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  Band, Citing, Influence

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• 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

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  Guitar, Play, Want

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

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  Nice, Years, Married

  "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Uncles, Aunt, Night

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

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  Writing, Thinking, Want

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• I never try and sound like Sabbath.

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  Trying, Sound, Sabbath

  "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Challenges, Albums, Would Be

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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.

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  Style, Black, Horizon

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• 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.

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  Soccer, Play, Watches

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• 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.

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  Funny, Song, Couple

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• I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

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  Bass, Sabbath

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

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  Frustrated, Musical, Albums

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