Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

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

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

People think I’m crazy, but I’m in demand.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

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.

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

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.

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

You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.

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.

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.

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

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.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn’t want to see my kids do the same thing.

Somebody said to me this morning, ‘To what do you attribute your longevity?’ I don’t know. I mean, I couldn’t have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I’ve lived the last 30 years!

You can’t kill Rock ‘n’ Roll. It’s here to stay

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.

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

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it’s a good thing.

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

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.

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

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

Maybe it’s not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

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.

It’s all part of my journey – I’ve done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

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 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.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

People say it’s hard at the top, but it’s even harder at the bottom.

I’m just a dreamer
I dream my life away
i’m just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days

What can go wrong will go wrong.

Sometimes I’m scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

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 a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.

I’d rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

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.

What is the world coming to?

I can’t change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

L.A.’s not a good place to grow old.

I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

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.

I wish I didn’t have to perform ‘Iron Man’ every night.

To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.

I’m dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I’ve got something like a hereditary tremor.