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"I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started."
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"Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath."
"I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo."
"You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support."
"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."
"There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi."
"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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"I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in."
"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."
"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."
"It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me."
"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."
"I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me."
"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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