Top 77 Sabbath Quotes

I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.

Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.

Proper Sabbath is Sabbath with Bill Ward. I’m sorry, it just is.

People that love this form of music have loved it from way back – Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like – bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was – at the age of 15.

Oh, I’m going to raise him on Black Sabbath and Metallica and football and MMA and all things that should matter for a young boy, and discipline and strength and honor and courage and everything that I would hope to instill within my son.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

I’m playing jazz throughout the song ‘Black Sabbath.’ That’s what it is there. I mean, I’m moving some other things around, but that is forever in there.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

I started to get turned on to a bunch of different bands when I was in middle school/high school. I was turned onto The Who and Black Sabbath and Yes, and stuff like that. But Rush I obsessed over. I wanted to have every album. I wanted to know storylines, read all the lyrics, learn the songs and everything.

We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we’re not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.

‘American Horror’ goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience – ‘Flowers in the Attic’ paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like ‘Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.’ It even has ‘Go Ask Alice’-era urban legends.

Once I started to make the transition to guitar – because I was playing keyboards when we started the band – I was trying to figure out riffs I could play without really having a lot of knowledge. And my dad ended up showing me Black Sabbath’s ‘Heaven and Hell,’ because he knew I loved Dio.

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it’s very nice and I’m very honored. It’s nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

I really like proto-metal, so stuff like Pentagram is really great, and that’s more in the vein of Sabbath and stuff like that.

I’ve always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

My favourite genre is probably Seventies rock: Deep Purple, Black Sabbath. I love that stuff because it’s what everyone was into when I was a teenager.

You can’t play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it’s going to ruin the song.

What makes something pop? It’s really just the bed it’s placed in. If I grab melodies by Black Sabbath or Metallica and take them out of their musical bed and put them into a pop context, it’s not like they wouldn’t translate.

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.

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.

It’s no coincidence that the word ‘holiday’ suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

The only advice I can give is to absorb as much as you can from as wide a spectrum as you can. If you’re in a rock band and only soak up Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple kind of beginnings, then you’re not going to have much leeway.

There’s only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

I was in a party band in the early ’80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and Van Halen… all that kinds of stuff.

I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest – Metallica’s ‘Kill ‘Em All’ was also a hell of an inspiration.

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.

If you’re an American kid, you can’t help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they’re always on the radio.

Sometimes it helps to take a couple days off, as weird as that sounds. Every once in a while, I could just shoot so many shots. You can get so, like, intense with it all. It’s like in life, right? We’re all created for a sabbath day or for a day of rest. You sometimes need that in shooting, too.

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.

I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself permission to ignore unsolicited communiques. I try, too, to give others more slack. The respond-now culture is a two-way street. I’m trying to be more mindful of that.

I’m so loyal to Black Sabbath, and I would never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, go into a situation with them under false pretenses.

I grew up with my dad’s music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I was listening to a lot of dude bands – Guns N’ Roses and Metallica, all that stuff.

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

Flying Colors is more alternative pop with a prog edge. Think the Beatles meets U2 meets Muse and Foo Fighters. It is the opposite of Adrenaline Mob, which has more classic metal influences like Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Pantera, or Disturbed. They are completely different ends of spectrum.

Where I lived, on Long Island, you had the radio stations that always played Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and AC/DC and all that. I grew up on all that stuff.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN’R, Megadeth – just classic rock, classic metal stuff.

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

Ever since Adam’s day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord’s day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.

Sabbath is always some of the best music ever. And the reason is because it grooves. It’s funky. It’s heavy. It’s got lots of great changes, twists, and turns.

I’m not angry; I write about angry characters. When I’m doing that, I’m happy. Just like when I’m writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I’m not feeling lustful; I’m happy.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it’s a great frequency and it’s great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening – even though my parents music was way cool – to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that’s just where I came from.

I try to keep a Sabbath perspective.

Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.

If there’s some longevity with Black Sabbath, then I’d like to be a part of it.

My first novel, ‘Compromising Positions,’ was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends’ December decorating options.