Geezer Butler Quotes

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Geezer Butler

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 17, 1949

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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If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.

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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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Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

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When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

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We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

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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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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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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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The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

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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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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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Lately, I've 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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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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It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.

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It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

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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.

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I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

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I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

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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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