Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

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.'

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.

There are no unlockable doors.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I'm no good. I can't read.

A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

With time, people forget to say, "Darling I love you." just that word.

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

There are no incurable ills.

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.

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.

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

The media sells it and you live the role.

We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.

Life's not all about money.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."

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.

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

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

Suicide is the only way out.