Iommi Quotes

#1. I remember saying to Tony [Iommi], 'Did you hear how heavy that Led Zeppelin album sounded?'
Without missing a beat, he replied, 'We'll be heavier.'

Ozzy Osbourne

#2. Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

Henry Rollins

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

Zakk Wylde

#4. Tony Iommi - the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him.

Ozzy Osbourne

#5. During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

Geezer Butler

#6. If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.

Peter Steele

#7. I have the greatest respect for Tony Iommi.

Ozzy Osbourne

#8. An unfair process helps no one. But once you've gone through with that process and you think that you know that person has raped someone, they have to go.

Michele Landis Dauber

#9. I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own.

Tony Iommi

#10. I love Nintendo, I'll never not love Nintendo. I want to play new Zeldas, basically.

Ron Funches

#11. I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

Henry Rollins

#12. I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.

Nelly Furtado

#13. You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

Richard Bach

#14. Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.

Pam Munoz Ryan

#15. You can't change a negative situation with bad feelings. If you keep reacting negatively, your bad feelings will magnify and multiply the negativity.

Rhonda Byrne

#16. I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

Tony Iommi

#17. In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

Tony Iommi

#18. It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.

Tony Iommi

#19. I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

Tony Iommi

#20. My life is mine to spend," she said. "And I will not spend it here, no matter how nice your city is, or how much safer it might be. We had a deal, Kell. And now you have Tieren to guard your story and heal your brother. I'm of no use to him. Let me be of use to you.

V.E Schwab

#21. Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Tony Iommi

#22. I don't like him." Looking from Kale to Alex, Ginger said, "I don't like cabbage. Do you see me taking on the produce section of the food store?

Jus Accardo

#23. For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

Tony Iommi

#24. The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

Tony Iommi

#25. Rely not upon conscience,' Feren said, hearing the bitterness in her own voice and not caring. 'It ever kneels to necessity.

Steven Erikson

#26. If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.

Jeremy Corbyn

#27. Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.

Tony Iommi

#28. Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.

Nikolas Schreck

#29. My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

Tony Iommi

#30. 'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.

Alex Pettyfer

#31. The Republicans' plan is that if they can't buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

Elizabeth Drew

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

Tony Iommi

#33. They sounded really professional because they had two Vox AC 30 amplifiers. I also had an AC 30, so when you looked at it, three AC 30s, three Fenders - bloody hell, it must be a great band!

Tony Iommi