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

"You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support."

"I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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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