Geezer Butler Quotes

• I never try and sound like Sabbath.

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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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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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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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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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Geezer Butler (27)

Birth:	17th July, 1949
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician

About

Geezer Butler is an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He was also involved in Heaven & Hell from 2006 to 2010.

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