Quotes and Sayings about Sabbath
"Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: God, Fact, Sabbath, World)
"Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers."
- Charles Buck
(Related: Day, Name, Sabbath, Writers)
"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)
"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)
"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)
"I never try and sound like Sabbath."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Sabbath, Sound)
"I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Sabbath)
"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)
"The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart."
- Anita Diament
(Related: Family, Heart, Sabbath)
"I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band."
- Greg Ginn
(Related: Deep, First, Sabbath)
"Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before."
- John Hawley
(Related: Old, Sabbath, Writing)
"Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it."
- Tony Iommi
(Related: Love, Sabbath)
"I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it."
- Tony Iommi
(Related: Belief, Artists, First, Now, Rap, Sabbath, Years)
"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time."
- Daniel Johns
(Related: Music, Time, Thought, Fun, Play, Sabbath)
"I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath."
- John Harvey Kellogg
(Related: Sabbath)
"No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: People, Sabbath)
"Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums."
- Jason Newsted
(Related: People, Sabbath, Will)
"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week."
- Chaim Potok
(Related: Work, Sabbath)
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
- Thomas de Quincey
(Related: Drinking, Man, Murder, Procrastination, Sabbath)
"Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old."
- Nikki Sixx
(Related: Old, Roses, Sabbath, Years)
"I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath."
- Chad Smith
(Related: Work, Favorite, Sabbath)
"I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo."
- Peter Steele
(Related: Sabbath)
"If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun."
- Lars Ulrich
(Related: Fun, Sabbath)
"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath."
- Ville Valo
(Related: Day, Effect, Now, Sabbath, Trying, Years)
"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week."
- Alice Walker
(Related: Rest, Sabbath)
"I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it."
- Kip Winger
(Related: Fun, Sabbath)
"There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi."
- Zakk Wylde
(Related: Sabbath)
"You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support."
- Ovadia Yosef
(Related: Sabbath, Support)