Top 60 Bill Ward Quotes

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

I think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven‘t forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players.

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

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

We never made music to fit into anything or to reach a certain audience.

I have been blessed with musical visions and the ability to harness them.

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

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

When I write, there’s always an image, sometimes a color attached to what’s being created. I am delighted with the captured expressions – from my head and my heart. Their arrival onto canvas is beautiful.

In the Sabs we had to remain in this depressing, unreal world. I didn’t like all the devilish boohoo that went with it, to tell you the truth. There was manipulation from outside sources that preferred us to be a certain way. Acting up to that, I felt quite dishonest.

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

I like jamming to rap.

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.

I’m so loyal to Black Sabbath, and I would never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, go into a situation with them under false pretenses.

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

Metallica‘s ‘black’ album, when I heard that and I heard Lars’ playing, and I just was, like, you know, ‘Wow! Something really neat‘s been accomplished here.’

I’m hoping I can get in a position where I’m self-supporting from my own work.

For our many Sabbath fans, I love you all dearly. You are extremely special people.

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.

I actually like a lot of Motorhead records.

When I’m working on new ideas, musically much of what’s played is guided by a visual appearance or shape.

I wanna play hard rock. I wanna play loud drums.

I get to play what I’m feeling on my solo records, and I get to bang the hell out of a drum kit in Black Sabbath.

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

I am honest about who I am, where I am and what I think.

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

Being able to tell the truth is a gift.

I have an open mind, and I try to be critical of none of the bands, even if something’s not to my personal taste. After all, somebody worked really hard on that music.

I found very early on that I lacked the ability to be able to play as a timekeeper. I have a really tough time even thinking in those terms.

I would never, ever, ever commit to taking on any type of live commitment, or studio commitment, if I knew there was something going on inside of me which could stop me from doing it.

I’m a big fan of DevilDriver and I have been since they first started.

I’ve often said that with Black Sabbath you ought to have put a lasso around the sound and pulled it in. That’s the best way to record Black Sabbath.

I don’t want to do death any more. I don’t want to do doom and gloom. I want to do life and love.

When I listen to our first album now, I can hear the purity of the oneness of leaving all earthly things aside to come together and create something. It’s quite marvelous.

Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I’m singing about.

I based my tuning on Gene Krupa, Buddy and Joe Morello. I knew how I wanted the drums to sound and we did the best we could with a beat up Ludwig kit. I spent a lot of time around drummers learning how to get sound. I knew the sound I was after and what would work for what we were playing.

I love Black Sabbath’s music.

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.

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

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.

As far as I’m concerned, the book‘s never closed with Sabbath!

I had a lot of teachers. When I think about my upbringing I feel like the most fortunate person. It was a marvellous era for drummers.

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.

If there’s some longevity with Black Sabbath, then I’d like to be a part of it.

When I think about the lyrics to ‘The Wizard,’ some people could probably feel that they’re laughable. But they actually meant something for us, and we were bold or brave enough to show ourselves from the inside out.

When you love somebody, and they start saying things that are not true and really hurt, you have to remove the love.

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

Every day, I write. I have a writing period – it’s usually in the morning – or I’m writing songs.

I’m so-so on the blastbeat. A couple of my mates play that style. I’m not a huge fan, no – and the only reason for that is because it distracts me from other elements of the dynamics. It’s a little overpowering!

I don’t know about all this ‘speed metal’ and everything… It’s all metal to me.

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.

Ultimately, I’d say a lot of my vocal influences are jazz-based, people like Ella Fitzgerald, or Fred Astaire.

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

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

I don’t like misleading people, and I like to be honest and transparent.

I… remember taking all kinds of risks and at the time being oblivious to danger and really thinking back then how I could really do anything that I wanted.

I really enjoyed playing drums on ‘Born Again.’ It was a good feeling about being alive. There was a good energy there about being sober.

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’m a visionary drummer and I have been for a long, long, long time.

I have no choice but to be transparent. I have to be, in order for me to live.