Top 27 Quotes by Geezer Butler

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

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

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

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.