Welcome to our compilation of Ozzy Osbourne Quotes! Ozzy Osbourne is an English singer, songwriter, and television personality who rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the most successful and influential artists in the history of heavy metal. Throughout his career, Ozzy has shared his unique perspective on life, love and death through his lyrics, interviews and other public appearances. Here we will explore some of his most memorable quotes and learn more about the real Ozzy Osbourne.
Ozzy Osbourne Quotes On Success In Life
⚫ “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
⚫ “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “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?” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “I can’t change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I can’t do anything in moderation.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that’s OK – the bat had to get Ozzy shots.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerized Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I hated school. Hated it.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “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 Quotes
⚫ “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “I wish I didn’t have to perform ‘Iron Man‘ every night.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I’m into rock’n’roll because rock’n’roll, to me, means freedom.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I’m not a musician – I’m a ham.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “If you can laugh at your mistakes, it’s a good thing.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “If you go out for a drink, you go out for a drink. You don’t think, ‘I’ll have a few pints. I’ll piss up this shrine.’” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “In 1964 something totally unexpected happened. I got a job I enjoyed.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “It’s all part of my journey – I’ve done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “Maybe it’s not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “My father always said I would do something big one day.’ I’ve got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,’ he’d tell me after he’d had a few beers.’ You’re either going to do something very special, or you’re going to go to prison.’
⚫ “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
⚫ “My stay in Camp Betty was the longest I’d been without drink or drugs in my adult life. […] At first, they put me in a room with a guy who owned a bowling alley, but he snored like an asthmatic horse, so I moved and ended up with a depressive mortician. […] The mortician snored even louder than the bowling alley guy – he was like a moose with a tracheotomy.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
“People say it’s hard at the top, but it’s even harder at the bottom.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “People think I’m crazy, but I’m in demand.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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 honor 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
⚫ “Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Sometimes I’m scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “The Jesus freaks were the worst. While the ‘Suicide Solution’ case was going through the courts they followed me around everywhere. They would picket my shows with signs that read, ‘The Anti-Christ Is Here’. And they’d always be chanting: ‘Put Satan behind you! Put Jesus
⚫ “The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “The road to nowhere leads to me.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “There are no impossible dreams.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “Tony Iommi – the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “What can go wrong will go wrong.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That’s what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I’ll have a drink and a line of this and I’ll smoke this. I didn’t go, ‘Then I’m going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,’ but that’s what happened. I’m not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don’t involve me. I’m lucky to be alive; you’re playing with Russian roulette.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “When you’re young, you’re stupid. You do silly things.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “You can’t kill Rock ‘n’ Roll. It’s here to stay” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “You learn who your friends are when the sh-t hits the fan.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “You’re chasing the dragon, you’re chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who’s still trying to fly.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne Quotes
⚫ “Black Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.”
⚫ “I couldn’t be a royal. It’s like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.”
⚫ “I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK – the bat had to get Ozzy shots.”
⚫ “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.”
⚫ “I’m a very simple man. You’ve got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off…and the nightmare continues.”
⚫ “It could be worse…I could be Sting.”
⚫ “L.A.’s not a good place to grow old. It’s a Paris Hilton-getting-fucked-up-the-arse kind of town…a town full of ambulance chasers.”
⚫ “Sometimes I think my whole career and life has only been about a bloody Bat!”
⚫ “Viagra’s a great sleeping drug. I take Viagra, and Sharon goes right to sleep.”
Ozzy Osbourne quotes about himself
⚫ “I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn’t want to see my kids do the same thing.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I couldn’t be a royal. It’s like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I wish I didn’t have to perform ‘Iron Man’ every night.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
“I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Out of everything I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most!” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
Best Ozzy Osbourne quotes
⚫ “Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I’m a very simple man. You’ve got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off… and the nightmare continues.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “It’s gotta be any parent’s worst nightmare when they lose their child.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Nothing more, nothing less…” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Reviews? Didn’t read ’em.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Shock is a very weird thing.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne quotes about music, war, and other things
⚫ “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
⚫ “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?” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, “Where was my head at when I wrote that?”” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I’d rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I’m not a musician – I’m a ham.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.” – Ozzy Osbourne
“Rock music is not meant to be perfect.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “What is this? It’s music to get a brain seizure by.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “You can never take the violence back.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne quotes about love and hate
⚫ “Five kids in one lifetime ain’t bad – and I love them all so much. They’re the best things that ever happened to me, no question about it.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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
⚫ “I didn’t have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I love you all; I love you more than life itself, but you’re all fucking mad.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “I loved being a dad. It’s just so much fun watching these little people you’ve brought into the world as they develop and grow up.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “Maybe it’s not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.”” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “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.” ― Ozzy Osbourne
⚫ “With time, people forget to say, “Darling I love you.” just that word…” ― Ozzy Osbourne
Verdict
Ozzy Osbourne Quotes are a great source of inspiration and wisdom. His words have the power to motivate and encourage us to live life to the fullest. Whether we are looking for advice on life, relationships, or music, his words are filled with wisdom and humor. Ozzy Osbourne has a unique perspective on life, and his quotes remind us that life is full of surprises, and that it’s important to take life one day at a time.