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When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

— David Pajo

In truth, if you lived next door to us in those days, you probably would've never stopped to see if your lawn was dead…

— Motorhead

Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society.…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.

— Ozzy Osbourne

There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went…

— James Hetfield

The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands…

— Reed Mullin

That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and…

— Chad Smith

As a band, when we started, that was all we were good at. It wasn't 'we've got to be a guitar band'; if we…

— Luke Hemmings

We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've…

— Robert Trujillo

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made…

— Geezer Butler

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.

— Dimebag Darrell