Osbourne Quotes & Sayings

Black illusion is all I ever see. — Ozzy Osbourne

I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party. — Ozzy Osbourne

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 didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox. — Jack 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

I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin. — Ozzy Osbourne

There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their voice. Some have both, like Freddie Mercury, but to me, I prefer style over technique. — 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

There's the perception Danni Minogue is the sweetest little thing in the world but she's not ... she's got balls of steel. — Sharon Osbourne

I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol ... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why. — Ozzy Osbourne

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody. — Ozzy Osbourne

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

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off ... and the nightmare continues. — Ozzy Osbourne

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

I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over? — Ozzy Osbourne

There are no uncriminal crimes. — Ozzy Osbourne

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people. — Kelly Osbourne

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

I'm an ass-kicking fat kid. — Jack Osbourne

I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married. — Kelly Osbourne

I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help. — Kelly Osbourne

There are no invisible seams. — Ozzy Osbourne

There are no unlockable doors. — Ozzy Osbourne

He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child. — Ozzy Osbourne

Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it. — Ozzy Osbourne

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends. — Jack Osbourne

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted. — Ozzy Osbourne

You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it. — Ozzy Osbourne

And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up. — Ozzy Osbourne

I remember saying to Tony [Iommi], 'Did you hear how heavy that Led Zeppelin album sounded?'
Without missing a beat, he replied, 'We'll be heavier.' — Ozzy Osbourne

I've said to my kids, 'I don't want you to think I jumped away from you and clicked my heels and said bon voyage. It wasn't like that at all. It just about destroyed me.' — Ozzy Osbourne

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, Let's just write some scary music. — Ozzy Osbourne

I'll always be an outrageous character. — Ozzy Osbourne

In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to. — Ozzy Osbourne

I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about. — Ozzy Osbourne

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first. — Sharon Osbourne

A trick I've learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going. — Kelly Osbourne

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

The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal. — Ozzy Osbourne

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll. — Ozzy Osbourne

To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild. — Ozzy Osbourne

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play. — Ozzy Osbourne

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? — Ozzy Osbourne

Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then. — Ozzy Osbourne

I believe in what I do. I mean, I don't go out - I don't have the clothes or drink anymore, I don't do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house. — Ozzy Osbourne

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. — Henry Rollins

Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking. — Ozzy Osbourne

Yeah his being Sumerian to this group would go over like an Ozzy Osbourne/Marilyn Manson duet at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting. He might as well be wearing a shit that said "Kibbles and Bits," with a heavy emphasis on the "bits" part ... — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time. — Ozzy Osbourne

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in? — Ozzy Osbourne

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life. — Kelly Osbourne

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me ... — Ozzy Osbourne

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him ... you know, he wasn't even present, really. — Jack Osbourne

I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye. — Jack Osbourne

In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage. — 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

Do you want me crucified for my profanity? — 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

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

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

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you. — Jack Osbourne

Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself. — Kelly 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looking at her, he could almost see the painted serpent squirming on her skin, ready to turn, mouth open. — Megan Abbott

I didn't have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon. — 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 suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed. — Ozzy Osbourne

Nobody tells me f-k all! — Ozzy Osbourne

I'm giving everyone involved 24 hours to make it right or the world will hear how I really feel. — Kelly Osbourne

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

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing. — Kelly 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 feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different. — Kelly Osbourne

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

If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day! — Kelly Osbourne

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice. — Jack Osbourne

You learn who your friends are when the shit hits the fan. — 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

I think I take my style from all walks of life, and all generations and decades of life as well. I love mixing '50s with '80s and classic with punk. — Kelly 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

Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN. — Sharon 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 was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'. — Kelly Osbourne

There are no unwinnable wars. — Ozzy Osbourne

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