Ronnie James Dio Quotes

I think it would be fun to play a young Ozzy Osbourne in a movie about the formation of Black Sabbath.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.

I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

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 ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.

I didn't have any doubts about joining Arch Enemy.

I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60.

I feel just as much a part of 'War Eternal' as I do 'Will to Power.'

I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really on my way. But I didn't take the scholarship. I got sidetracked, because when summers came around, I started playing with a rock-and-roll band.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

I had a deal with CNN and had no intention of going back to the music business, but you know, it's Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I wanted to be in a rock band. That's all I ever wanted to do.

It's been an incredible experience, playing with Twisted Sister, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, jamming with Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and the list goes on and on and on.

I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the three guys in this band from such a young age, we aren't going to let any of the spoils change us.

I like the guys in Cheap Trick. I like playing in it and the music we do.

I never thought I would sing professionally, but it so happened that I made Babul hear a Bengali song I had sung many years ago. He thought I should sing and bring out an album. I readily agreed.

When I was touring with Ozzy, you know, when I was with Manson, we toured with Ozzy, so many times, we did Ozzfest a thousand times, and, you know, it seems like I'm always playing with Ozzy in one way or another opening up.