Explore Quotes by Geezer Butler

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

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!

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

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.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about

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

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

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 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.

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 polish things too much, it loses the feeling

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

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.

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.