Geezer Butler Quotes & Sayings

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

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it. — Geezer Butler

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

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

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'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night. — Geezer Butler

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

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that. — Geezer Butler

I never try and sound like Sabbath. — Geezer Butler

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

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

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started. — Geezer Butler

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about. — Geezer Butler

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world. — Geezer Butler

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

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

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling. — Geezer Butler

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

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

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

During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons. — Geezer Butler

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal. — Geezer Butler

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

Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road. — Geezer Butler

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

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me. — Geezer Butler

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

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

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second. — Geezer Butler