Ozzy Osbourne Quotations

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

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

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

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!

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

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.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

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

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

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

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

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

I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

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?

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

I bit the head off a live bat the other night. It was like eating a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather.

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

Just take our name off the list. .Ê.Ê. The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans .Ê.Ê. .

L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

I thought at the end of the day they're never going to do it.

To be a parent, especially to rock 'n' 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.

What you see on the show is absolutely us,

Dickinson got what he deserved. Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away with talking . . . about my family night after night?

fish like cheese..... sometimes, ......................sometimes some fish like cheese

I have no regrets except that I wasn't up to keep Randy (Rhoads) from getting on that plane.

I love you all, but you're all f*****g mad!

Considering the amount of talent that comes out of this country, it should have been done 20 years ago,

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.

Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

Tony Iommi - the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him.

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

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.

I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.

One thing that does confuse me, is that there are more religions in this world than ever, yet there's only sup­posed to be one God.

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

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I’ve never been back to his graveside. I’d like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side.

There are no unsavable souls.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.

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.

When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

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.

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

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.

What can go wrong will go wrong.

Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.

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.

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.

It had a huge impact on me, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ – and I was very proud when I found out that Kurt Cobain was a fan of mine. I thought he was awesome.

I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

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

You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay

I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.

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!

How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?

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.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

At 18 if someone had said to me, 'I think you should go to rehab,' I would have thought, 'You're #*&!@ mad'.

I've had every known chemical--cocaine, booze--and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

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

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

You can never take the violence back.

Life's not all about money.

The road to nowhere leads to me.

I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.

I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.

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

Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.

Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

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!

Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?

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.

I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”

I can't do anything in moderation.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.

Black illusion is all I ever see.

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

The media sells it and you live the role.

I'll buy myself some plastic water, I should have married Lennon's daughter.

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.