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Geezer Butler
English
Musician
About the author
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,
English
Musician
Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Years
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,
English
Musician
#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,
English
Musician
#Now
#Music
It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#World
#Vote
Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#Son
#Doubt
When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
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,
English
Musician
#Want
#Life
#Play
#Influence
#Guitar
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,
English
Musician
#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,
English
Musician
#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,
English
Musician
#Challenge
#Sabbath
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#Hair
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#Want
The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#Work
#Science
I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#Life
#Years
#Interest
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,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Death
#Sabbath
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,
English
Musician
#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,
English
Musician
#Sabbath
I never try and sound like Sabbath.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#Sound
#Sabbath
However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#Song
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#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,
English
Musician
#Now
#Love
#Day
#Play
#Old
#Soccer
I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#Life
#Old
#Women
#Reality
If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.
Geezer Butler,
English
Musician
#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,
English
Musician
#Hope
#People
#Years
#Fighting
#Disappointment
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,
English
Musician
#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,
English
Musician
#Sabbath