17. Frases Célebres.

"What happened to Technical Ecstasy sales wise?" "I think it entered the Mongolian chart at 301" Ozzy - 1978

"Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?" Tony - 1971

"Why shouldn't I tamper around with Sabbath songs. I'm the singer now, and forgive me for saying so, I'll do things my own damn way." Dio - 1980

"Well I quite like him really. But Tony has nicked all my Sinatra albums. Where do you think he gets all his riffs from?" Geezer - 1975

"What was your worst nightmare?" "When Ozzy was in the band -uups- sorry, joking about." Tony - 1990

"We were starving, literally starving. If it hadn't been for Tony's mum, I don't think we would have survived at all. She used to make up all the sandwiches and give us cigs." Ozzy - 1985

"People keep calling us a teenybop band, thinking that we only appeal to people below the age of twenty. It's not true, we get a lot of heads at our concerts these days. " Geezer - 1972

"I joined the band to travel, not to become a rock and roll star. I didn't even think about making a record when we made the first album. I was just pleased to be able to say: 'look mum, look what I've made - my voice on a piece of plastic forever'." Ozzy - 1974

When asked what the most outstanding moment in Sabbath's ten year history was, Geezer replied: "When Villa won the League Cup". 1978

"Geezer's only decision he made was in a restaurant between a sandwich or a beer." Dio - 1983

"We're never going to split. We couldn't be more together now, because we love each other and because we dig each others music both individually and as a group." Bill - 1973 "They say we're a hard band. It makes you sick." Ozzy - 1973

"Geezer's got an incredible mind, he can say things for everybody that we can't say. Y'know like the words of the songs - he say's everything for the band." Tony - 1974

"You've got to be a commando to play the States." Bill - 1973

"I've been visiting a psychiatrist for some time now. He plays mind games. He asks things like 'do you masturbate'? and I say 'do you breathe?'." Ozzy - 1975

"Musically, they are completely uncompromising, and would rather starve than sell out to more commercial forms of music." Vertigo Press Release - 1970

Apparently Ozzy once referred to Sabbath Mk.3 as "Geezer Butler and the three Italians". "Black Sabbath 1994? Better known as 'Electric Sabbath Orchestra' or Black Purple." Dio - 1993

Allan Jones a former Melody Maker journalist who once deservedly left the full weight of a shattering hook from Iommi for continually slagging Sabbath, once described Tony as looking like a "gypsy violinist in an Earls Court pizza parlour, or more accurately, like the Italian contestant in next years Eurovision Song Contest". No wonder Tony thumped him! "So it's great to be able to do this [playing 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbabth' live]. I mean even he [Tony Martin] can't sing!" Tony - 1994