Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

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

I am going through changes

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

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

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.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet.

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

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

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.

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.

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.

Nobody tells me f-k all!

Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.

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.

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

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

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

International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.

I didn’t have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

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.

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

Do you want me crucified for my profanity?

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.

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

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.

Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?

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

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

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.

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

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

What can go wrong will go wrong.

There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins.

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

Love and peace to everyone. May your God go with you.

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

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

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 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.

Dogs smoke in France.

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.

Black illusion is all I ever see.

My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

There are no indisputable truths.

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