Amplified Sound Quotes

I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.

I think I was made for live music. It's just great.

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you're already in a soundscape that's very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments.

A lot of the 'Back In Black' stuff is really challenging.

Anytime you go to see a band with a guitar player, there's always a fear of guitar overkill! That's a funny question. If you went to a Taylor Swift concert or a Jay-Z show, people would think, 'Oh, my God, I hope I don't get guitar overkill.' People come to our show for guitar, and there can never be enough.

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.

And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.

Rock & roll is instant coffee.

Artistically, or just performance-wise, I love playing arenas. I think that is my favorite form, because it's big enough to feel like a big, grand show.

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.

We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo either becomes either very truncated, very different, or non-existent, because even if you play a clean solo, it's different with the Kryptonite... with the acoustic.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

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.

You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

My favorite idea is doing an all-night tent show starring my friend's band Marijuana Deathsquads, where everyone would wear super-loud headphones, and there would be tons of subs and lights. It'd be really dope.