Black Sabbath Quotes

“When you listen to early Black Sabbath, you know that the main difference between them & you is that somebody bought them guitars and microphones. They're not smarter than you; they're not deeper than you; they're a fuck of a lot richer than you, but other than that, it's like listening to the inside of your own mind. So when they write songs, they sing about wizards. And witches. And robots.”
― John Darnielle, Master of Reality

“I can't draw pictures! But that's OK because there are no pictures on the the cover of Master of Reality. It is just words written in a wavy style which you would probably say is just drugs but I think the point is to make you say "What is reality?" which sometimes you might say is a stupid question. But I would say to you then, oh really?”
― John Darnielle, Master of Reality

“Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age, this method came naturally. I’d write lots of poems to expel negative feelings. Though I didn’t show them to anybody—they contained the kind of stuff you’d hesitate to tell even a psychiatrist—they became the seeds for the lyrics that would come to define my career.”
― Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

“Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera.
It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we consumed enough booze and drugs to sink a battleship. Music writers spent decades trying to tear us down. There were so many lineup changes I sometimes didn’t know what band I was supposed to be in.”
― Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

“I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.”
― Ozzy Osbourne

“Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.”
― Ozzy Osbourne

“Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind
People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time
All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy
Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify
Can you help me, occupy my brain?”
― Black Sabbath

“Ozzy Zig had his gig,
One last, wild Brummie jig.”
― Stewart Stafford