Geezer Butler Quotes


"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."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Boys, Poison)

"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."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Music, Now)

"It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Vote, World)

"Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Son, Doubt)

"When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant."
- Geezer Butler
"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."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Life, Guitar, Influence, Play, Want)

"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!"
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Time)

"Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!"
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Love, Jazz, Listening)

"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."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Challenge, Sabbath)

"The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Hair)

"I would not want to write something about something I do not think about."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Want)

"The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Work, Science)

"I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Life, Interest, Years)

"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."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Death, Sabbath, Songs)

"It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Kids, Old)

"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."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Sabbath)

"Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream."
- Geezer Butler
"I never try and sound like Sabbath."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Sabbath, Sound)

"However long the song is was how long it took us to write it."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Song)

"I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Sabbath)

"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."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Love, Day, Now, Old, Play, Soccer)

"I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Women, Life, Old, Reality)

"If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Feeling)

"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."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: People, Hope, Disappointment, Fighting, Years)

"I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Direction, Sabbath)

"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."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Sabbath)