Zakk Wylde Quotes (35 Quotes)

Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

If it's a long bus drive after the gig, we'll listen to music all the time, like the Stones, Neil Young, Elton John. Just mellow stuff.

If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

My spirit is bent and there's blood on my hands, the more I'm down, the less I understand.

The tours are campaigns.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

I was looking at the lyrics, and I just said, 'Man, this has gotta be Dime's tune,' so we just made it Dime's song and that's how the video came about, ... I think it's really emotional and it came out great. It's all about Dime's memory and there ain't a dry eye in the house every time you see it.

We know so many people and have extensive connections to families and friends in Louisiana and Mississippi, so this is the least we can do. People should also know that absolutely every penny that we raise at this event is going directly to the people and families that have been so greatly affected.

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.

You're never going to learn everything.

I'm always excited about the fresh stuff.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

The river is a metaphor for life in general, ... all the bullshit that you deal with from being a kid growing up. The whole thing's just about life and death.

The way I look at it you can always get better.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

You never toot your own horn.

It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

Ozzy has dyslexia.

One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

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