If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.
I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.
The Jesus freaks were the worst. While the ‘Suicide Solution’ case was going through the courts they followed me around everywhere. They would picket my shows with signs that read, ‘The Anti-Christ Is Here’. And they’d always be chanting: ‘Put Satan behind you! Put Jesus in front of you!’ One time, I made my own sign – a smiley face with the words ‘Have a Nice Day’ – and went out and joined them. They didn’t even notice. Then, just as the gig was about to start, I put down the sign, said, ‘See ya, guys,’ and went back to my dressing room.
I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead. '
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
'Everything beautiful occurs when the body is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U. S. , between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.
Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.