Zakk Wylde Quotes

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Zakk Wylde

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 14, 1967

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.

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You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

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Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

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For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.

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Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

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You're never going to learn everything.

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You never toot your own horn.

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We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

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We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

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There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

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The way I look at it you can always get better.

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The tours are campaigns.

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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

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Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

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Ozzy has dyslexia.

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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

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

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