Geezer Butler Quotes

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

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!

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

I'm a veteran of Ozzfest.

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.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

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

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

Give metal a chance!

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.

On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.