Top 100 Ozzy Quotes
#1. Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
Geezer Butler
#2. I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.
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#4. Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!
Nikki Sixx
#5. If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
Zakk Wylde
#6. I remembered I had tickets that Susan Blond gave me to the rock kid who ate the heads off bats, Ozzy Osbourne,...
Andy Warhol
#7. When Ozzy calls and asks you to go on tour, you say, 'When do I start?'
Nikki Sixx
#8. 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.
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#9. It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young ... or Ozzy Osbourne.
Kate Hudson
#10. 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.
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#11. Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.
Tony Iommi
#12. I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
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#13. There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them..
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#14. We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.
Tommy Lee
#15. The funny thing about GPS was it didn't always send you in the right direction.
I knew that if I took a right and took Twelfth instead, I'd get there faster, so I turned right. Ozzy did not approve.
Wut the foock?
Darynda Jones
#16. I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
Cameron Diaz
#17. I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.
Henry Rollins
#18. Oh, hello there, my name's Ozzy Osbourne, and I've been bonking groupies for a couple of months, and I think my knob might be about to fall off, would you mind terribly giving me a shot of penicillin to make sure my missus doesn't get whatever I've got?
Anonymous
#19. What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He'd been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.' (Styxx)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. That night, at God knows what hour, Bill phoned me up and shouted, 'Ozzy, I think my
house is haunted!'
'Sell tickets then,' I told him, and put the phone down.
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#21. I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
Stephen Malkmus
#22. I only remember fighting Ozzy O'Dell once. It was back in second grade. He threw these weird windmill-like punches, which was probably an early sign that the swim team was in his future.
Neal Shusterman
#23. And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne.
Janet Evanovich
#24. I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
Eddie Trunk
#25. Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food.
Ted Nugent
#26. In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.
Tony Iommi
#27. I loved working on '90210,' and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base.
Michael Trevino
#29. Yeah his being Sumerian to this group would go over like an Ozzy Osbourne/Marilyn Manson duet at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting. He might as well be wearing a shit that said "Kibbles and Bits," with a heavy emphasis on the "bits" part ...
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.
Sharon Osbourne
#31. Ozzy's cage is now sparkling but there is a problem. It seems that if you put vast quantities of sawdust down a toilet, the toilet stops working.
J.A. Buckle
#32. My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.
Martina Mcbride
#33. After a real snake ended up on stage one night, it was well and truly pissed off about being on stage with Ozzy Osbourne, that snake was.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Long before there was Marilyn Manson, long before there was Alice Cooper, way before Ozzy Osbourne, there was Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz
#36. So you got me," Ozzy admitted. "I like her. The woman burns words the way a magician burns flash paper - quickly and with a lot of show. It stimulates my brain.
Julie Ann Walker
#37. Obviously [Black] Sabbath is definitely a huge name and of course deserving with Ozzy coming back.
John Petrucci
#38. 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?
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#39. There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.
Johnny Depp
#40. I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.
Chuck Klosterman
#41. It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
Sam Kinison
#42. 'Someone's gonna die before this is over,' I said to Doc McGhee. [...]
'I don't think someone's gonna die, Ozzy. I think we're all gonna die.'
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#43. Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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#44. Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
Geezer Butler
#45. 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.
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#46. Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.
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#47. I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed.
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#51. I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.
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#54. Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.
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#55. The Beatles gave me everything. Especially Paul McCartney. I adore him.
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#56. If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.
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#57. 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.
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#59. You've got to try and take things to the next level, or you'll just get stuck in a rut.
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#60. Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.
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#67. You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.
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#68. I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.
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#69. 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.
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#70. I'm a nice guy, you know.
It's hard work to be an asshole.
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#71. I've said to my kids, 'I don't want you to think I jumped away from you and clicked my heels and said bon voyage. It wasn't like that at all. It just about destroyed me.'
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#73. All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.
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#74. I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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.
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#78. When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.
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#80. 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.
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#81. I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.
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#82. The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.
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#83. 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
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#84. 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.
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#85. I do miss the social aspect of sitting in a pub with a pint but you know what when I get down to it I never went for a pint. I went to a pub to get f**ked up. If it was just going for a pint that would be ok but once I start I just can't stop.
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#87. I keep hearing this fucking 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?
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#88. With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.
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#89. I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away
i'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
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#90. Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
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#91. As far as we were concerned, we were just a blues band that had decided to write some scary music.
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#92. 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.
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#93. 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.
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#94. I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.
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#95. 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?
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#96. A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.
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#97. 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.
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#98. Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking.
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#99. I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60.
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#100. The fact that I ever raised my hand against a woman disgusts me. It was a f**king atrocious, unforgivable way to behave, and there's no excuse for it, ever. And like I said before, it's something I'll take to the grave with me.
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