Quotes by Zakk Wylde

• Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
• You never toot your own horn.
• 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.
• We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.
• There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.
• The way I look at it you can always get better.
• You're never going to learn everything.
• 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.
• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
• 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.
• 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.
• I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
• 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 isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ozzy has dyslexia.
• 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!
• If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
• 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.
• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
• 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.
• Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
• Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.