Top 100 Ozzy's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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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#3. 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
#4. You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.
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#5. It's gotta be any parent's worst nightmare when they lose their child.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#11. 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
#12. I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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#13. 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.
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#14. The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.
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#15. I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.
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#19. God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.
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#20. What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
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#21. You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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#22. I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, Let's just write some scary music.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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?
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#25. 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
#26. People say it's hard at the top, but it's even harder at the bottom.
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#28. 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!
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#29. You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay
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#30. 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.
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#31. Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.
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#32. Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.
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#33. '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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#34. I don't know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn't mine, that's for sure.
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#35. 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.
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#36. I'll buy myself some plastic water, I should have married Lennon's daughter.
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#37. 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
#38. There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.
Johnny Depp
#39. 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 ... Satan.
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#40. 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.
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#41. What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.
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#42. 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.
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#43. I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.
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#44. 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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#45. 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?"
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.
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#50. Just take our name off the list ... The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans ...
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#51. 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 ...
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#52. The Beatles gave me everything. Especially Paul McCartney. I adore him.
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#53. Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!
Nikki Sixx
#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.
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#58. 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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#59. 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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#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. 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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#63. 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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#64. If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.
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#65. 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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#66. Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.
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#67. I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.
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#68. 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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#69. I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.
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#70. I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed.
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#71. 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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#73. I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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#74. Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.
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#75. 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
#76. 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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#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. It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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#79. All rehab can do is tell you what's wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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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#82. 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.
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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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#85. 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
#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.
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#90. 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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#91. All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.
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#93. 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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#94. I'm a nice guy, you know.
It's hard work to be an asshole.
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#95. 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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#96. When Ozzy calls and asks you to go on tour, you say, 'When do I start?'
Nikki Sixx
#97. I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.
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#98. I remembered I had tickets that Susan Blond gave me to the rock kid who ate the heads off bats, Ozzy Osbourne,...
Andy Warhol
#99. 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
#100. 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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