Zakk Wylde Quotes

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.

On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

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

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!

You have to have passion for what you're doing.

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

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.

There are no rules in the entertainment business.

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.

You never toot your own horn.

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

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.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.

It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.

It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

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

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

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

I have sold my soul. Just sign right here.

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

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.

I'm a good Catholic boy.

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.

You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?

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

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

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.

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.

I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.

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

You're never going to learn everything.

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.

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

The tours are campaigns.

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

The work these brave men and women do is extremely important, not only to our nation but to all the countries that our troops are stationed at around the world. I am grateful to the USO for having us and to all the troops who shared their day with us.

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

Every day you try to get better.

I'm blessed to be able to do what I do.