Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Ward - Page 2

One thing I can confirm is whenever I listen to 'Laguna Sunrise,' it sounds exactly like Laguna Beach. There's something about it.

I don't have a problem with letting go of an album once I know I've pretty much done the best that I can.

In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my playing by the time February of 2013 came around. I would go up and rehearse to different songs, play stuff like Count Basie records, jazz or rap.

As far as drummers are concerned, when I was a child growing up I was really attracted to artists like Gene Kupra and Louis Bellson and Buddy Rich; a lot of the drummers that played in the popular big bands of the '40s. I would listen to their records.

If you believe in a higher power or if you believe in God, then I would suggest that you go to God and see if you can find some solutions. If you don't believe in God, then try to be as honest with yourself as you possibly can... When I've chosen the light of God or self-honesty, my own misery has brought me to a solution.

One of the biggest struggles I've had is being me.

I write all the time. Some of them are very personalized things. Some of them are sarcastic looks at life.

Being able to tell the truth is a gift.

I just was attracted to just wanting to make noise on different things.

I think everything that I've ever played has somehow trickled down from Gene Krupa.

I don't want to ride on Sabbath's coattails in order to encourage my own opportunities.

It's that mindset we have where we think we are indestructible. I know at least I went through that phase, where everything was excessive! Like if I drove a fast car I'd just have to take it to 130 miles per hour or more, you know!

Things haven't always worked out how I want them to, but the eventuality of being honest is a daily gift.

I don't feel I'm taking the moral high ground, telling people to stop eating animals because I've done it. It just works for me.

Try not to be alone with your own pain. Try to find someone you can trust your pain with.

I got so lonely in 2012 and I wasn't playing drums. I thought I would just form my own band and play drums again. I think it was 2013 that we started looking for two other people and formed Day of Errors.

Sweet Leaf' and 'Iron Man' were the rallying points for all the young men coming back from Vietnam.

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time that I was about five or six years old, all the music that I ever heard was jazz and it was American jazz, and it was big-band jazz, to be more defined.

It's hard to be a hungry young man when you're not hungry anymore. We were very hungry young men when we wrote 'Black Sabbath' and when we wrote 'War Pigs.'

I like jamming to rap.

I can't afford to have resentment. I can't afford to be angry. I can't afford these things spiritually or physically.

Let's get rid of the myth that I'm rich.

You can't play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it's going to ruin the song.

Touring is completely different to me than being in the studio.

Once I started to get some of the things I'd always craved, I still found myself incredibly unhappy. It was never enough. A lot of that stems from being real, real insecure, wanting more and hoping that will fix the insecurity.

I play like Bill, I can't play like anybody else!

Every year when I get my health checks they come out better and better.

When we did 'Air Dance,' I thought we were actually quite courageous doing that because it's not necessarily quote-unquote a Black Sabbath song. But I don't give a damn about that because it is part of Black Sabbath; it is a Black Sabbath song.

Sweet Leaf' is a very aggressive song when we do it live.

I'm playing jazz throughout the song 'Black Sabbath.' That's what it is there. I mean, I'm moving some other things around, but that is forever in there.

Regardless of injuries, we would get onstage, and as soon as we were up there it was like, bam! You were hit with an incredible force. The band came alive on stage like someone had switched us on.

One of the things I loved about Black Sabbath was, when we were on the road, there were times we had been on the road for so long and we were tired and we were exhausted. We would show up at gigs and we were so tired that we would be fast asleep in the dressing room. Our road manager would come in and say, '20 minutes, guys.'

I like jazz in all the ways that it is played.

It's really important that we communally share what's going on with each other... Otherwise, we're going to be walking around in a very sorrowful place.

I heard about twenty, twenty-four bars of one track - one track - on '13,' and I listened to it, and I just didn't like it at all; I just didn't like it. And I have that right not to like it.

Even our early audiences were very polite. It felt like playing in our living room. I remember the audiences changing in front of me. I remember that distinctly. The way they wore their clothes became different. We got a lot of leather jackets with studs. People's hair changed. The whole look was just a sublime move.

I don't tend to be current with anything. I just write the music and allow it to just be whatever it is.