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Zakk Wylde
American
Musician
About the author
Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Day
#Play
#Music
You never toot your own horn.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Day
#Men
#Sharing
#Beer
We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Sabbath
The way I look at it you can always get better.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
You're never going to learn everything.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Day
#Man
I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
The tours are campaigns.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Kids
#Fame
That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Life
#Society
#Colors
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Music
#Football
I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Beer
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Guitar
It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Violence
On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Day
#Beer
One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Wife
#Day
#Months
#Alcohol
Ozzy has dyslexia.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Time
#Day
#Play
#Guitar
#Beer
If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Life
#Work
#Questions
Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#People
Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Fans
#Family
Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Now
#Ideas
#Song
Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Time
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
Zakk Wylde,
American
Musician
#Want
#Passion