Quotes by Geezer Butler - Page 1

I never try and sound like Sabbath.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Sabbath
Sound
Trying
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I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started
Geezer Butler / Musician
Bass
Sabbath
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I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Sabbath
Picked
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If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling
Geezer Butler / Musician
Feelings
Polish
Too Much
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If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Loses
Polish
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I would not want to write something about something I do not think about
Geezer Butler / Musician
Thinking
Want
Writing
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The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Albums
Black
Keyboards
Album
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When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant
Geezer Butler / Musician
Band
Citing
Influence
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When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Citing
Relevant
Influences
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It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Running
Matter
Vote
World
Billionaires
Run
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Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Craziest
Doubt
Mets
Son
Ozzy
Met
Sam
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I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Deals
Reality
Reality Of Life
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I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Married
Nice
Nice Life
Years
Life Me Things
Happily
Perfectly
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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.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Bloody
Play
Soccer
Watches
All Day
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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.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Bass
Bass Players
Cream
Player
Saws
Bruce
Jack
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Band
Calling
Hair
Horrible
Metal
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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.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Music
Backstreet
Band
Boys
Poison
Metal
Pop Band
Warrant
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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 / Musician
Bigger
Mixed
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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 / Musician
Albums
Frustrated
Musical
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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 / Musician
Frustrated
Musical
Sabbath
Direction
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Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
Geezer Butler / Musician
Albums
Jazz
Listening
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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 / Musician
Belt
Conveyor
Metal
Produced
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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!
Geezer Butler / Musician
Coltrane
Jazz
Album
Love Good New
John
Lately
Metal
Pat
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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.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Band
Heavy
Made
Roots
Sabbath
Blues
Me Always Blues
Heavier
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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 / Musician
Albums
Challenges
Sabbath
Would Be
Great Always Feel
Album
Finish
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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.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Bass
Black
Black Sabbath
Sabbath
Joined
Studio
Walked
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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.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Knocking
Rehearsal
Sabbath
Song
Toward
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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 / Musician
Cream
Everybody Else
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.
Geezer Butler / Musician
Funny
Couple
Farewell
Rolling
Song
Ozzy
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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 / Musician
Guitar
Play
Want
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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 / Musician
Rhythm
Bruce
Jack
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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 people.
Geezer Butler / Musician
War
Disappointment
Fighting
Handful
Meaningless
Wars
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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 / Musician
Black
Horizon
Style
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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 / Musician
Uncles
Aunt
Black
Night
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