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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Kids #Play #Guitar

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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Dream #Country #House

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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Flower #Views #Years

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

#Believe #Mean #Clothes

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

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Want #Sound #Kind

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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Hate #People #World

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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Son #Years #Littles

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

#People #Sides #Looks

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

#Destiny #Hands #Politics

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

#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?
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Mean #Rocks #Stuff

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

#Halloween #Night #People

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

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Night #Car #Darkness

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 Osbourne

#Morning #Mean #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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Glasses #Taste #Booze

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

#Drunk #Different #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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Boys #Men #Thinking

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

#Adore #I Adore Him

What can go wrong will go wrong.
-- 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

#Kings #Wine #Bullshit

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

#Men #Rocks #Rock And Roll

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

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Stupid #Military #War

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

#Believe #Fate #Purpose

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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Smell #Impact #Fans

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

#Musician #Ham

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

#Training #Needs #Lunatic

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

#Coffins #Looks

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

#Sleep #Swimming #Dna

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

#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?
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#War #Gun #Giving

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

#Thinking #Gigs #Concerts

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

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Night #Guy #Black

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

#People #Guy #Black

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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Yesterday #Live In The Moment #Tomorrow

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

#Drug #Drug Addict #Alcoholics

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

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Skeletons #Perfect #People

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

#Fun #Writing #Black

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."
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Fun #Dope #Lines

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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Fun #Dope #Decision

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

#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.
-- Ozzy Osbourne

#Teenage #Kids #Pigs