Osbourne Ozzy Quotes & Sayings

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever. — Stephen Malkmus

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

If I go out with a jacket and a pair of trousers that my wife doesn't like, you can bet your ass it ain't in my wardrobe the following day. I say that it gets lost in the sky. — 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

People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?" — Ozzy Osbourne

The bike went up in the air and landed on my back. It broke my neck, smashed my collarbone and splinters of bone severed my main artery. My lung filled up with blood. I severed my nerves and to this day I have no feeling there. — Ozzy Osbourne

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note! — Ozzy Osbourne

When you're in love, it's not just about the messing around in the sack, it's about how empty you feel when they're gone. — 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

You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly. — 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

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

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

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

There are no unlockable doors. — 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You've got to try and take things to the next level, or you'll just get stuck in a rut. — Ozzy Osbourne

Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains. — Ozzy Osbourne

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood. — Ozzy Osbourne

Chocolate thickens the saliva, which isn't good news if you've gotta recite Shakespeare or sing Iron Man. Having said that, you're not supposed to drink tea either but I still do before gigs. It's not very rock and roll, but it's like a magic potion to me. — Ozzy Osbourne

He was a good guy, my old man: simple, old-fashioned. Physically, he was built like a feather-weight, and he wore these thick, black Ronnie Barker glasses. He would say to me,'You might not have a good education, but good manners don't cost you anything.' And he practised what he preached: he'd always give up his seat on the bus for a woman or help an old lady across the road.
A good man. I really miss him. — Ozzy Osbourne

It was one of the greatest experiences of my life to meet Paul McCartney. It was phenomenal. — Ozzy Osbourne

Won't you ride my white horse? — Ozzy Osbourne

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! — 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

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me. — Ozzy Osbourne

There are no invisible seams. — 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

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid. — Ozzy Osbourne

Every shopaholic needs an accomplice. — Ozzy Osbourne

Rock music is not meant to be perfect. — Ozzy Osbourne

I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down. — 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'll always be an outrageous character. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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