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"I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath."
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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."

"I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal."
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