Geezer Butler Quotes

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I never planned to join Black Sabbath - it just happened. It was back in 1979 when they were celebrating their 10th anniversary.

I think it would be fun to play a young Ozzy Osbourne in a movie about the formation of Black Sabbath.

Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?

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.

I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.

'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!

My 'Slide Some Oil' ain't gon' be Nipsey Russell's 'Slide Some Oil.' Elijah Kelley's 'You Can't Win' ain't gon' be Michael Jackson's 'You Can't Win.'

We've never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.

Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That's who Babymetal aspires to become some day.

When 'Paranoid' came out, how many other 'Paranoids' came out? No shots, just real.

I think my music is more personal than most of the music I'm hearing.

'Master of Reality' rules; it's one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it - and some of the sexiest riffs as well.