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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."
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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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"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."

"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!"

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
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