I think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven't forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
“Hatred and food were served up in equal proportions at the Connor dining table as he was growing up.” — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
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'… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
Gene Hoglan is one of my friends, and when I watch him play, I'm blown away; I can't believe what his body can do. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
I don't know about all this 'speed metal' and everything... It's all metal to me. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
You can't play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it's going to ruin the song. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I'd say a lot of my vocal influences are jazz-based, people like Ella Fitzgerald, or Fred Astaire. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
If there's some longevity with Black Sabbath, then I'd like to be a part of it. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
I heard about twenty, twenty-four bars of one track - one track - on '13,' and I listened to it, and I just didn't… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
I based my tuning on Gene Krupa, Buddy and Joe Morello. I knew how I wanted the drums to sound and we did the… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
“There can be no greater motivator for evil than a huge sense of injustice!” — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
