I Am Ozzy Quotes & Sayings

I have the greatest respect for Tony Iommi. — Ozzy Osbourne

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes. — Ozzy Osbourne

I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man. — Ozzy Osbourne

Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the f-ck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH! — Ozzy Osbourne

We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, Respect. — Ozzy Osbourne

It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the f**king things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know? — Ozzy Osbourne

I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to. — Chuck Klosterman

I have no faith in my ability to judge things. — Ozzy Osbourne

It's sad, y'know, what money does to people. — Ozzy Osbourne

There are no uncriminal crimes. — Ozzy Osbourne

There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached. — Johnny Depp

I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York ... it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that. — Ozzy Osbourne

There are no unwinnable wars. — Ozzy Osbourne

I do miss the social aspect of sitting in a pub with a pint but you know what when I get down to it I never went for a pint. I went to a pub to get f**ked up. If it was just going for a pint that would be ok but once I start I just can't stop. — Ozzy Osbourne

I remember one night in Memphis, I'd come out of a blackout, and I didn't know where I was. I'm feeling through the darkness - I was asleep in the middle of a freeway. I went up to this car in the darkness, and it was a cop car. — Ozzy Osbourne

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto. — Ozzy Osbourne

That night, at God knows what hour, Bill phoned me up and shouted, 'Ozzy, I think my
house is haunted!'
'Sell tickets then,' I told him, and put the phone down. — Ozzy Osbourne

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade. — Ozzy Osbourne

I have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me. — Ozzy Osbourne

Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam. — Ozzy Osbourne

I just can't wake from these scary dreams. — Ozzy Osbourne

Reviews?
Didn't read 'em. — Ozzy Osbourne

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man. — Ozzy Osbourne

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one. — Ozzy Osbourne

I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet. — Ozzy Osbourne

With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go. — Ozzy Osbourne

I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same. — Ozzy Osbourne

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence. — Frederick Lenz

I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I'm no good. I can't read. — Ozzy Osbourne

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing. — Ozzy Osbourne

When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before. — Ozzy Osbourne

I didn't have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon. — Ozzy Osbourne

I feel joy when I do a great show. — Ozzy Osbourne

I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away
i'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days — Ozzy Osbourne

Mind you, it's all bullshit with wine, isn't it? It's just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say. — Ozzy Osbourne

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies. — Ozzy Osbourne

We're going off the rails on a crazy train. — Ozzy Osbourne

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past. — Ozzy Osbourne

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing. — Ozzy Osbourne

I retired once but you've got to have something to retire to and I don't want to do anything. My job is like a well paid hobby, I mean not a hobby but I'm not lining up every morning at the bus queue to go to work. I'm very lucky. — Ozzy Osbourne

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die. — Ozzy Osbourne

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. — Ozzy Osbourne

The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me. — Ozzy Osbourne

I'm a nice guy, you know.
It's hard work to be an asshole. — Ozzy Osbourne

Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway. — Ozzy Osbourne

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory. — Ozzy Osbourne

I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times. — Eddie Trunk

The way I was boozing was a kind of suicide. It was only gonna be a matter of time. — Ozzy Osbourne

I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself. — Ozzy Osbourne

I loved working on '90210,' and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base. — Michael Trevino

Do you want me crucified for my profanity? — Ozzy Osbourne

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life! — Ozzy Osbourne