Top 27 Quotes by Geezer Butler

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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