“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.” WritingDepressionLyricsBlack Sabbath Book:Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond Source: 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.” Black Sabbath Book:Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond Source: Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
“During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.” FirstsBlackStyleJazzMeetingsHorizonCapabilitySabbathGuitaristBlack Sabbath Author:Geezer Butler
“Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.” BlackWrittenStudiosBassSabbathBlack Sabbath Author:Geezer Butler
