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" 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! "

Zakk Wylde

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People

Good

" I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out. "

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

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

" Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage. "

" All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer. "

" 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. "

" The tours are campaigns. "

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Campaigns

Tours

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

" We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest. "

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

" 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. "

" You're never going to learn everything. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on. "

" You never toot your own horn. "

" I'm a good Catholic boy. "

" You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music. "

" I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old. "

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Process

" You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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Because

Knee

" 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. "

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Sorry

Everything