Quotes About Music

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.

That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

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

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

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.

The first 'Blackout!' just started out with us doing the first song, 'How High' - I guess it was 'How High' - and then it just took off from there.

I'm a huge Tchad Blake fan.

I thought it would be nice to sit in with Timothy B. Schmit and sing 'Take It to the Limit,' but they pretty much gave me a 'no' in a roundabout way. I can't blame them. They have to keep their band the way it is.

My father didn't believe in my music. I don't blame him.

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.

When I was 13, I went on 'Britain's Got Talent.' I auditioned. I sang a cover of a song called 'White Blank Page' by Mumford & Sons.

Listening to Ozzy Osbourne at full blast always made me feel a little bit better. It made me feel like I wasn't alone.

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA system blasting away.

The truth is, I do some of my best writing at 3 A.M. while blasting 'Every Time I Die' into my ear drums.

I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears!

I think a lot of bands would just make a dark, bleak album, which is why we wanted to do the opposite. We wanted to let people know that there's hope out there, and that no matter how tough things get, they will always get better. I'm really proud of that.

My memories of mealtimes are a real bleed of music and food. Music never really stopped in the music room, because everyone would move out to the table with their sitars.

A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre.

My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.