Era Quote by Bill Ward

“Hatred and food were served up in equal proportions at the Connor dining table as he was growing up.”

— Bill Ward

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

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

— Bill Ward

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

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

— Bill Ward

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

— Bill Ward

You can't play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it's going to ruin the song.

— Bill Ward

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

— Bill Ward

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

— Bill Ward

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

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

“There can be no greater motivator for evil than a huge sense of injustice!”

— Bill Ward