Top 278 Quotes & Sayings by Ozzy Osbourne

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

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

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.

L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

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

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

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

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 can't do anything in moderation.

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

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

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

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

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

What is the world coming to?

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

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

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.

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

You learn who your friends are when the sh-t hits the fan.

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.

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.

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.' And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.

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.

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'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

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

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 in front of you!’ One time, I made my own sign – a smiley face with the words ‘Have a Nice Day’ – and went out and joined them. They didn’t even notice. Then, just as the gig was about to start, I put down the sign, said, ‘See ya, guys,’ and went back to my dressing room.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

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.

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.

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 is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.