Geezer Butler quotes
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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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“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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“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 ButlerSource : "GEEZER BUTLER - 'The '80's Were The Worst Period For Metal'". Metal Exiles Interview, bravewords.com. March 24, 2005.
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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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“I would not want to write something about something I do not think about”
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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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“I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started”
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“If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling”
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“I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me”
-- Geezer ButlerSource : "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.
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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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“I never try and sound like Sabbath”
-- Geezer ButlerSource : "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.
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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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“When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant”
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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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“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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“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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“Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.”
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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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“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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“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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“It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.”
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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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“The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.”
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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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