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27 quotes by Geezer Butler

Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949 in Birmingham, England) is an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded with Heaven & Hell, GZR, and Ozzy Osbourne.
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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... →

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

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