Quotes About Tony Iommi

#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. Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

Catherine Doherty

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

Tony Iommi

#10. I am forced to render some order to the events of my life, to say it began here, and then because of this, that happened, and this is how the end connects to the beginning, and so here I am.

Abraham Verghese

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

Tony Iommi

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Tony Iommi

#15. 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

#16. God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

Vincent De Paul

#17. If 10 percent of them are close to your age, that would be around 50,000 people in a lifetime. Given that you have 500,000,000 potential soul mates, it means you would find true love only in one lifetime out of 10,000.

Randall Munroe

#18. You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#19. I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.

James Garner

#20. What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus.

Kathleen Peacock

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I know that the designers that have me in their shows have me for a reason, I know that the designers that don't have me in their shows don't have me for a reason, and I accept either way.

Gigi Hadid

#24. 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

#25. It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

Bradley Wiggins

#26. They rarely look at Baba
the teenagers
and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.

Khaled Hosseini

#27. 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

#28. I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

Margot Robbie

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

Tony Iommi

#30. 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