Zakk Wylde Quotes

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Ozzy has dyslexia."

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

"The tours are campaigns."

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