Zakk Wylde Quotes

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

With me, I would never lose my sight of music.

From the very beginning, I was clear that it would always be music for me.

I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

The great love of my life is music.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

I lived for music since I could think.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.

Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.

That's what I wanted to do was play music.

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.