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"If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs."
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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
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"My sunglasses are like my guitar."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."
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"It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it."
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"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."
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"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."
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"I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord."
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi."
Sabbath
"Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family."
Family
"If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs."
Guitar
"If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be."
Day
"It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan."
Violence
"On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest."
Beer
"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."
Wife
"Since day one my thing has always been to play the music."
Music
"I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half."
Fame
"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."
Life
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