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"I never try and sound like Sabbath."
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"I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo."
"Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath."
"There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi."
"You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support."
"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."
"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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"Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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