Ozzy Osbourne Quotes:

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.

Topics: Kids, Play, Guitar, Famous Musician, Guitar Music

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

Topics: Dream, Country, House, And At The End Of The Day

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.

Topics: Believe, Mean, Clothes

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

source: - Twitter post from Aug 11, 2014

Topics: Hate, How To Love, Too Late

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

Topics: Want, Sound, Kind

People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.

Topics: Fighting, People, Way

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.

Topics: Son, Years, Littles, Oxycontin

I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.

Topics: People, Sides, Looks

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

Topics: Destiny, Hands, Politics

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

Topics: Retirement, Conversation

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?

Topics: Mean, Rocks, Stuff, Hard Rock, Heavy Music

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.

Topics: Halloween, Night, People, Every Night

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

Topics: Kings, Unbelievable Things, Normal

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.

Topics: Night, Car, Darkness, Blackouts, Freeways

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.

source: - MTV News Online, 1992.

Topics: Morning, Mean, Alcohol, Alamo, Drugs And Alcohol

I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.

Topics: Glasses, Taste, Booze

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

Topics: Drunk, Different, Sober, Being Drunk, Being Sober

My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.

Topics: Thinking, Names, Ideas

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.

Topics: Boys, Men, Thinking

The Beatles gave me everything. Especially Paul McCartney. I adore him.

Topics: Adore, I Adore Him

What can go wrong will go wrong.

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.

Topics: Men, Rocks, Rock And Roll, Iron Man, Saliva

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!

Topics: Writing, Years, Notes

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.

Topics: Pressure, Valve, Lunatic

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.

Topics: Stupid, Military, War, Military Intelligence, Secret Intelligence

I know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.

Topics: Believe, Fate, Purpose

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

source: - Source: www.levity.com

Topics: Musician, Ham

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

Topics: Coffins, Looks

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?"

Topics: Mother, Kids, Son

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?

Topics: War, Gun, Giving, Expletives

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.

Topics: Thinking, Gigs, Concerts, Missed Ones

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

Topics: Rabies, Biting, Bats

I was always apologizing for yesterday's behavior and I got tired of it. I feel it's good being straight. As I did when I first got high. It's a high to be straight because I was getting loaded every day.

Topics: Tired, Yesterday, Firsts

I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.

Topics: Night, Guy, Black, One Night, Black Sabbath

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.

Topics: People, Guy, Black, Black Sabbath

I'm not a big fan of TV. It's an unavoidable situation being Ozzy Osbourne, people want you to go on chat shows, and I'm not good at it. I don't feel comfortable doing it.

Topics: People, Goes On, Want

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

Topics: Sky, Wife, Pairs

I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.

Topics: Yesterday, Live In The Moment, Tomorrow

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

Topics: Drug, Drug Addict, Alcoholics

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

source: - Source: www.nola.com

Topics: Mistake, Laughing, Good Things

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

Topics: Skeletons, Perfect, People, Just Let It Go

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.

Topics: Fun, Writing, Black, Black Sabbath

I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f - - thing. First, I couldn't function without it. Then I couldn't do anything with or without it. Then I thought, "This is the end of the line for my fun days."

Topics: Fun, Dope, Lines, Smack, Cigarette Smoke

I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.

Topics: Fun, Dope, Decision

Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.

Topics: Men, Mets, Jagger

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.

Topics: Teenage, Kids, Pigs

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.

source: - Song: Believer

Topics: Inspirational, Believe, Wings, Flying Free

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

Topics: Funny, Crazy, Missing, Lost Things, Funny Bumper Sticker

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

source: - Ozzy Osbourne (2009). “I Am Ozzy”, p.269, Hachette UK

Topics: People, Focus, Failing

People say it's hard at the top, but it's even harder at the bottom.

source: - "E! True Hollywood Story (The Osbournes)". TV Series, May 17, 2007.

Topics: People, Harder, Bottom

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

source: - "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, January 25, 2010.

Topics: Training, Needs, Lunatic

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.

source: - "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2009.

Topics: Hate, People, World, Hate People

As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

Topics: Real, Kids, Long, Venting

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

Topics: Past, Trying, Better Future, Can't Change The Past

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

source: - Song: Dreamer

Topics: Dream, Dreamer, Better Days

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.

source: - Ozzy Osbourne (2009). “I Am Ozzy”, p.165, Hachette UK

Topics: Gone, Empty, Feels

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

source: - Twitter post from Feb 23, 2016

Topics: Rocks, Rock N Roll

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.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Genuine Love, Privilege, Affair

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

source: - "The Osbournes". TV Series, 2002-2005.

Topics: Scared, Sometimes, Could Have Been

There are no unachievable goals.

source: - Song: I Just Want You

Topics: Goal

People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.

source: - Song: Flying High Again

Topics: Crazy, Thinking, People

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

Topics: Inspirational, Believe, Miracle

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.

source: - "Ozzy Osbourne genome sequenced" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

Topics: Sleep, Swimming, Dna, Morphine, Sleeping Pills

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

Topics: Mistake, Stupid, Journey

There are no impossible dreams.

source: - Song: I Just Want You

Topics: Dream, Impossible, Impossible Dream

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

Topics: Careers, People, Understanding

You learn who your friends are when the sh-t hits the fan.

Topics: Fans, Who Your Friends Are

There are no unsavable souls.

Topics: Soul

Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you.

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: Jesus, Hurt, Stars, Just Believe, Reason To Live

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

source: - "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, January 25, 2010.

Topics: Trying, Next Level, Levels, Stuck In A Rut

My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers.'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.' And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.

Topics: Father, Beer, Men

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

source: - Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Topics: Parent, Proud, Wanted, Proud Of 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.

Topics: Couple, Blow, Years, Turds, Bogs

Don't ask me, I don't know

source: - Twitter post from Jun 08, 2015

Topics: Ask Me, Knows, Asks

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

Topics: Thinking, Talking, Mtv, Subtitles

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

source: - Song: You're No Different

Topics: Enemy, Adages, Criticize

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.

Topics: Flower, Views, Years, Randy, Randy Rhoads

The road to nowhere leads to me.

source: - Song: Road To Nowhere

Topics: Low Self Esteem

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

source: - Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Topics: Growing Up, Powerful, Men, Attractive Man

I like the word f-k. F-king deal with it and move on to the first f-king question you have.

Topics: Kings, Moving, Firsts

Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

Topics: Kings, Kids, College

Life's not all about money.

source: - "Kennedy heir is keeping odd company" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. March 10, 2005.

Topics: Life

My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'

source: - Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Topics: Dad, Son, Thinking

The Jesus freaks were the worst. While the ‘Suicide Solution’ case was going through the courts they followed me around everywhere. They would picket my shows with signs that read, ‘The Anti-Christ Is Here’. And they’d always be chanting: ‘Put Satan behind you! Put Jesus in front of you!’ One time, I made my own sign – a smiley face with the words ‘Have a Nice Day’ – and went out and joined them. They didn’t even notice. Then, just as the gig was about to start, I put down the sign, said, ‘See ya, guys,’ and went back to my dressing room.

Topics: Suicide, Jesus, Nice, Jesus Freak, Have A Nice Day

I can't do anything in moderation.

Topics: Moderation, I Can

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.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Lucky To Be Alive, Jail, People, Roulette, Russian Roulette

In 1964 something totally unexpected happened. I got a job I enjoyed.

source: - Ozzy Osbourne (2009). “I Am Ozzy”, p.33, Hachette UK

Topics: Jobs, Unexpected, Happened

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

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Night, Men, Iron, Iron Man

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

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Dangerous World, Be Careful, Bites

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

source: - "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2011.

Topics: Ideas, Brilliant, Mines

I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.

Topics: Concerts, Pregnant Women, Advise

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.

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: Doe, World, This World

There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

source: - "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2009.

Topics: Writing, People, Community

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

Topics: Kings, Rocks, Undisputed

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

source: - Song: Fire In The Sky

Topics: Children, Wall, Feelings

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

source: - Song: I Don't Know

Topics: Inspirational, Winning, Up To You, Win Or Lose

I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

source: - Song: Hero

Topics: Honesty, Hero, Want

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.”

Topics: Thinking, Years, Wish

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

source: - "Ozzy Osbourne: 'I had nothing to lose'" by Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2011.

Topics: Rocks, Perfect, Rock Music

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

source: - Song: Junkie, Album: Down To Earth

Topics: Dragons, Wings, Bird

Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?

source: - Song: You're No Different

Topics: Sick, Unanswered Questions, Sick Society

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.

Topics: Bumps, Firsts, Sticks

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

source: - Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Topics: Philosophy, Men, Trying

My stay in Camp Betty was the longest I'd been without drink or drugs in my adult life. [...] At first, they put me in a room with a guy who owned a bowling alley, but he snored like an asthmatic horse, so I moved and ended up with a depressive mortician. [...] The mortician snored even louder than the bowling alley guy - he was like a moose with a tracheotomy.

Topics: Horse, Guy, Drug, Morticians, Moose

If you go out for a drink, you go out for a drink. You don't think, 'I'll have a few pints. I'll piss up this shrine.'

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Thinking, Shrines, Drink

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."

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Purple, People, Zeppelins, Deep Purple

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.

source: - Song: Running Out Of Time, Album: Down To Earth

Topics: Running, Lonely, Hero, Running Out Of Time

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Mother, Thinking, Arrows, Love My Wife, Great Wife

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.

Topics: War, Glam Rock, Rocks, Glam, Brackets

It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake.

Topics: Kings, Night, Years

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: Mean, Rocks, Rock N Roll

Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.

source: - Song: Thank God For The Bomb, Album: The Ultimate Sin

Topics: Thank God, Bombs, Politics, Nukes

A Christian man is a man who is within himself, who puts out good vibes.

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: Christian, Men, Good Vibes, Vibes

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.

Topics: Impact, Smell, Fans

I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60.

Topics: Song, Want

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.

source: - Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Topics: New York, Garden, Squares, Madison, Madison Square Garden

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.

Topics: Blessed, People, Better Life

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 fucking 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?

source: - "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Ayres, January 25, 2010.

Topics: Kings, People, Drug

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!

source: - Launch.com, October 10, 2003.

Topics: Suggestions, Watches, World, Booze

The introduction of heartache began as a child.

Topics: Family, Children, Heartache

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.

source: - Rolling Stone Online, May 1997.

Topics: Book, Judging, Wake Up, Judging A Book By Its Cover, Saying Never

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

source: - Launch.com interview, October 30, 1998.

Topics: Stupid, Silly, Young, You Re Stupid, Silly Things

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?

source: - Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Topics: Rocks, Hands, Forever, Nightcap

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

source: - Song: Demon Alcohol, Album: No Rest for the Wicked, 1988

Topics: Party, Alcohol, Drug

I hated school. Hated it.

Topics: School, Hated

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.

Topics: Fate, Cities, America, Voter Turnout, Populism

For years I've had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication - I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day.

source: - Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Topics: Years, Pills, Different

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.

Topics: Retirement, Names, Long, Shovels

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!

source: - Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

Topics: Fun, Drug, Black, Black Sabbath

Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Band, Sabbath

The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Bats, Mouths, Next

If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Sex, Problem, Should

When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Want, Said, Heard

As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

Topics: Party, Journey, Lucky To Be Alive

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?

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: Fun, Night, Rocks, Fun Night

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.

Topics: Relationship, Sex, Priorities

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

source: - Song: Centre Of Eternity, Album: Bark At The Moon

Topics: Past, Explanation, Knows

The rest of the guys in Sabbath became boring old farts, and there I was, this crazy guy, still into wrecking hotel rooms and having parties.

source: - Ozzy Osbourne (2002). “Ozzy Talking: Ozzy Osbourne in His Own Words”, Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books

Topics: Crazy, Party, Guy, Old Farts

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.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Stupid, Stuff, Idiot, Caskets

The media sells it and you live the role.

source: - Song: Crazy Train, Album: Blizzard of Ozz, 2009

Topics: Art, Media, Roles

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.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Letting Go, Long, Rehab, Can't Let Go

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.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Simple, Men, Tvs, And Off, Simple Man

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!

Topics: Good Morning, Mean, Years

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.

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Mother, Encouragement, Jobs

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: Writing, Used

Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

source: - Song: I Don't Want To Change The World

Topics: Morning, Trying, Needs

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

Topics: Children, Kids, Addiction

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?

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: People, Hearing, Empty, Sold Out, Empty Seats

I wanted to be the fifth Beatle.

Topics: Fifth, Wanted

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.

Topics: Running, Jobs, Hate

I feel joy when I do a great show.

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Joy, Shows, Feels, Terminal, Pleasers

International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.

source: - "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

Topics: Stars, Rocks, Rock Star, Gravy

Rock and roll is my religion.

source: - Interview with David Gans, medium.com. January 10, 1982.

Topics: Religious, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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.

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: Home, Kids, Drunk

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

Topics: Impact, Mtv, Albums, Rotation, Dough

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.

Topics: Mean, Good Things, Reviews

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

source: - "What I've Learned: Ozzy Osbourne" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 1, 2005.

Topics: My Sister, Used

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

Topics: Crazy, Insanity, Rail

If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.

source: - Song: If I Close My Eyes Forever

Topics: Death, Eye, Wish, Cobwebs

Won't you ride my white horse?

source: - Twitter post from Sep 07, 2015

Topics: Horse, White, White Horse

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

source: - Song: Thunder Underground, Album: Ozzmosis

Topics: Art, Media, Bullshit

In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Eagles, Black, Sabbath, Black Sabbath

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.

source: - Launch.com, October 30, 1998.

Topics: Husband, Father, Caring, Family Man

The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.

source: - Song: Never, Album: The Ultimate Sin, 1986

Topics: Sadness, Doubt, Tears

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

Topics: Reality, Tvs, Wells, Reality Tv

What is the world coming to?

Topics: World

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: Men, Thinking, Mind

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.

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Holiday, Phones, Car, New Car

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

Topics: Sleep, Men, Guy, Red Alert, Box Of Chocolates

It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.

Topics: People, Doe, Knows

I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn’t make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I’m a Nazi, how come I married a woman who’s half Jewish?

source: - Ozzy Osbourne (2009). “I Am Ozzy”, p.220, Hachette UK

Topics: War, Mean, Dark, Worshippers

Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.

source: - Song: Symptom Of The Universe

Topics: Romantic, Summer, Sunshine, Take My Hand

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.

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Recovery, Tape, Attention, Attention Deficit Disorder

There are no unwinnable wars.

Topics: War

I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research - I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories.

Topics: Crazy, Son, Interesting, Interesting Stories, Dictating

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

source: - Song: My Jekyll Doesn't Hide, Album: Ozzmosis

Topics: Pain, Revenge, Lying, Pain Inside

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

source: - "Ozzy on Cigarettes, 'N Sync and Heston". Interview with Andrew Dansby, www.rollingstone.com. June 28, 2000.

Topics: Writing, Thinking, Scary

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

source: - Song: I Don't Wanna Stop, Album: Black Rain, 2007

Topics: Addiction

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

source: - "What I've Learned: Ozzy Osbourne" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 1, 2005.

Topics: Attention, Disorder, Deficit, Attention Deficit Disorder

Dogs smoke in France.

Topics: Dog, France, Smoke

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

Topics: Mother, Father, Drunk

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.

Topics: Book, Writing, Remember Something

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

source: - "What I've Learned: Ozzy Osbourne" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 1, 2005.

Topics: Memories, Liars, Great Memories

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

source: - Song: Crazy Train, Album: Blizzard of Ozz, 2009

Topics: Crazy, Healing, Insanity

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

source: - "Ozzy Osbourne: What I've Learned". Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.esquire.com. September 4, 2014.

Topics: Jobs, Retiring, Wanted

Every shopaholic needs an accomplice.

Topics: Needs, Shopaholic, Accomplices

I live in a 9 million dollar turd.

source: - "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

Topics: Dollars, Turds, Million Dollars

The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.

source: - Twitter post from Mar 16, 2015

Topics: Religious, Grace, Religion

There are no invisible seams.

source: - Song: I Just Want You

Topics: Invisible

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

Topics: Weather, Degrees, Stuck

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.

source: - "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

Topics: Sides, Acid, Side Effects

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.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Morning, Jobs, Mean, Lining Up

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

source: - "Ozzy Spikes Spike TV". www.ign.com. November 7, 2005.

Topics: Workout, Honor, Incredibles

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don’t teach you a thing about death. There’s no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

Topics: Dad, Book, England

There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.

Topics: Kings, Crazy, Fans

I open the door for old ladies, I help old ladies across the road. I do a show for leukemia every year, but I don't broadcast that because it's against my image.

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: Doors, Years, Helping, Leukemia

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Locks, Rooms, Drink

I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

source: - Source: jontrott.com

Topics: People, Foam, Mouths

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

source: - Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

Topics: Thieves, Bags, Determined

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.

source: - Source: www.wbur.org

Topics: Stupid, Bats, Dove