Quotes About Tony Iommi

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

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

As far as people, I've always loved Tony Iommi's sound, just the grittiness that was in that era of metal where it wasn't too fuzzy, and you could still hear the guitar and the fingers, but it still had this chunky, meat-and-potatoes sound to it.

The world doesn't revolve around Tony [Iommi] ,' he said. 'There'll be other guitarists.' He was a good guy, my old man. But this time he was wrong. There were no other guitarists. Not like Tony.

There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways , and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

I have the greatest respect for Tony Iommi.