Ronnie James Dio Quotes

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

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.

When I see lightning — you know it always brings me down
'Cause it's free and I see that it's me
Who's lost and never found.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

But I think it's a hell of a book. I think Whoever put it together did quite an interesting job, but I think that it was ... I think that things were put in there to capture a group of people so they would follow a religion.

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.

There's perfect harmony
In the rising and the falling of the sea.
And as we sail along,
I never fail to be astounded by
The things we'll do for promises
And a song.

Summer nights are colder now,
They've taken down the fair,
And all the lights have died somehow,
Or were they ever there?

Love is a never ending smile.

I refuse to be beaten in any way, shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.

Most dreams are made of glass,
You throw just one stone,
And then there goes your last window.