Ronnie James Dio Quotes

The world is full of kings and queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams,
It's heaven and hell, oh well.

If there isn't light when no one sees
Then how can I know what you might believe?

Maybe if we cry together,
Maybe if we cry as one,
The tears that fall could kill the fire
And keep everyone
From Atom and Evil.

I'm lucky that I am a very hard person and strong within my beliefs, so that this hasn't really been a problem for me, y'know, I just get cancer, I'll kick the hell outta you.

Where was your star?
Was it far, was it far?
When did we leave?
We believed, we believed, we believed
(...)

We always seem to begin or end in Philadelphia, it's the best place to start and the best place to stop. You're fantastic. My favorite place. Thank you!

Love is a never ending smile.

All Wagner, Ring, whatever. [...] The whole Valkyrie thing was cool, 'cause it was so tied into metal. I like Wagner's strength, just the pureness of it. I like a couple of Mozart things, but mainly Wagner.

It correlates itself with the way almost all of the people in this country believed in Richard Nixon up until the time he decided he was going to take a leap off the tower and fell flat on his ass and became just a little lump of blood and putty. That was my way of saying that the common man will always rise above the leader who oppresses them.

Let me go! I've seen religion,
But the light has left me blind.
Take me back!
I must have the Bible Black.

I am not an Atheist or an anti-God person but my beliefs are that you do not have to go to a place to worship, you don't have to go to a house to do that and that God resides in you and me and so does the Devil and heaven and hell is where we live on this earth. If the God that everyone prays to is such a wonderful God he wouldn't have people suffering so horribly as they are.

But life's not a wheel
With chains made of steel,
So bless me.

It's the same old song,
You've gotta be somewhere at sometime,
And they never let you fly.
It's like broken glass,
You get cut before you see it,
So open up your eyes.

I brought melody and classicalness and a great amount of musicality to this band. Ozzy began it, and he deserves all the accolades he can get because he helped invent this kind of music. What he did was absolutely right for what it was, but music grew at that point, and I think it grew beyond what Ozzy was capable of giving an audience from a musical standpoint.

That was obvious that there are people in this world who always going to try and take advantage of you — and do take advantage of you. Those kings and queens are the people who think that they are so important, who want to take advantage of you, and that makes your life Heaven and Hell. Promises that you're going to get [is] the Heaven part, and Hell [is] when they don't come real.