Zakk Wylde Quotes & Sayings

The way I look at it you can always get better. — Zakk Wylde

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music. — Zakk Wylde

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

I'm blessed to be able to do what I do. — Zakk Wylde

You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath. — Zakk Wylde

With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal. — Zakk Wylde

If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume. — Zakk Wylde

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived. — Zakk Wylde

I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus. — Zakk Wylde

It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle. — Zakk Wylde

Ozzy has dyslexia. — Zakk Wylde

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

Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down. — Zakk Wylde

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half. — Zakk Wylde

I'm a good Catholic boy. — Zakk Wylde

I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out. — Zakk Wylde

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something ... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer. — Zakk Wylde

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand. — Zakk Wylde

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

You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed? — Zakk Wylde

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib. — Zakk Wylde

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

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know? — Zakk Wylde

You never toot your own horn. — Zakk Wylde

You're never going to learn everything. — Zakk Wylde

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

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

You had better love the music ... because sometimes the music doesn't love you. — Zakk Wylde

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that. — Zakk Wylde

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old. — Zakk Wylde

Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him. — Zakk Wylde

It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner. — Zakk Wylde

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football. — Zakk Wylde

The tours are campaigns. — Zakk Wylde

Every day you try to get better. — Zakk Wylde

You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on. — Zakk Wylde

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot. — Zakk Wylde

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music. — Zakk Wylde

Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family. — Zakk Wylde

You have to have passion for what you're doing. — Zakk Wylde

The work these brave men and women do is extremely important, not only to our nation but to all the countries that our troops are stationed at around the world. I am grateful to the USO for having us and to all the troops who shared their day with us. — Zakk Wylde

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

For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label. — Zakk Wylde

I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times. — Zakk Wylde

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi. — Zakk Wylde

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

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

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage. — Zakk Wylde

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

I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it ... — Zakk Wylde

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is. — Zakk Wylde

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing. — Zakk Wylde

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage. — Zakk Wylde

There are no rules in the entertainment business. — Zakk Wylde

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out. — Zakk Wylde

On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest. — Zakk Wylde

Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here ... maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting. — Zakk Wylde

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music. — Zakk Wylde

I have sold my soul. Just sign right here. — Zakk Wylde

It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday. — Zakk Wylde

I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on. — Zakk Wylde

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House. — Zakk Wylde

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan. — Zakk Wylde

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest. — Zakk Wylde

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