Zakk Wylde 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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

You never toot your own horn.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

It isn`t a band. It`s bigger than a band. It`s a lifestyle.

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 way I look at it you can always get better.

You`re never going to learn everything.

The tours are campaigns.

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

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

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

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.

I`m always excited about the fresh stuff.

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.

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.