Bill Ward Quotes

Bill Ward

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 5, 1948

It's really important that we communally share what's going on with each other... Otherwise, we're going to be walking around in a very sorrowful place.

Bill Ward

I can't afford to have resentment. I can't afford to be angry. I can't afford these things spiritually or physically.

Bill Ward

The great thing about being a great band is that it takes risks.

Bill Ward

I write all the time. Some of them are very personalized things. Some of them are sarcastic looks at life.

Bill Ward

I don't feel I'm taking the moral high ground, telling people to stop eating animals because I've done it. It just works for me.

Bill Ward

Every year when I get my health checks they come out better and better.

Bill Ward

Let's get rid of the myth that I'm rich.

Bill Ward

I like jazz in all the ways that it is played.

Bill Ward

It's hard to be a hungry young man when you're not hungry anymore. We were very hungry young men when we wrote 'Black Sabbath' and when we wrote 'War Pigs.'

Bill Ward

I just was attracted to just wanting to make noise on different things.

Bill Ward

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time that I was about five or six years old, all the music that I ever heard was jazz and it was American jazz, and it was big-band jazz, to be more defined.

Bill Ward

Even our early audiences were very polite. It felt like playing in our living room. I remember the audiences changing in front of me. I remember that distinctly. The way they wore their clothes became different. We got a lot of leather jackets with studs. People's hair changed. The whole look was just a sublime move.

Bill Ward

Sweet Leaf' and 'Iron Man' were the rallying points for all the young men coming back from Vietnam.

Bill Ward

Touring is completely different to me than being in the studio.

Bill Ward

I play like Bill, I can't play like anybody else!

Bill Ward

I made the decision back in 1984 to never play with Black Sabbath unless it was the original line-up. And I stuck to it for quite a long time. A lot of that was about honoring Ozzy.

Bill Ward