To me, SABBATH was always JUSt a really HEAVY blues band. That s all we were. We just TOOK those blues roots and made them heavier.

When we PLAY LIVE, we GO back to our PUNK ROOTS.

I think any smart BUSINESSMAN would GO where the MONEY is bigger, but I also FEEL like you don't forget your ROOTS either.

I think that the ROOTS of RACISM have always been economic, and I think PEOPLE are DESPERATE and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies TOWARD - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

A big shop in Manhattan WOULD feel like we were betraying our ROOTS. And we're not just going to OPEN a bunch of stores.

We never look deeply into the quality of a TREE; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and HEAR the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the ROOTS.

It's not ENOUGH to just be a good SINGER. You have to know where your ROOTS come from. If you SING JAZZ, you should know all about jazz. You should look into, as much as you possibly can, the history of it, so that you're and educated and well-informed performer.

If art is to nourish the roots of our CULTURE, SOCIETY must SET the ARTIST free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Since we've come to Charlotte, we very QUICKLY realized that this is home. This community quickly embraced our family, so we put down ROOTS here. We LOVE it here. This is home for US.

I CONSIDER myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the ROOTS of improvisation, singing in FRONT of the beat, behind the beat, PLAYING with notes and harmonies.

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and ROOTS, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to REPAIR the DAMAGE of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

It is ALWAYS nice to KEEP in touch with our family and KNOW our ROOTS.

It's not like if I play in BIG places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in STYLE to make my music. I want to stay true to my ROOTS, to keep MAKING the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are PEOPLE who want to listen to it, I'm happy.

It is good to be WELL connected with ENGLISH language, LITERATURE and history, but the knowledge of our culture and ROOTS is equally important.

Acquaintances we meet, ENJOY, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep ROOTS.