Top 278 Quotes & Sayings by Ozzy Osbourne - Page 4

I'll buy myself some plastic water, I should have married Lennon's daughter.

Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.

There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their voice. Some have both, like Freddie Mercury, but to me, I prefer style over technique.

We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.

Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

I am going through changes

What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."

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.

My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.

You can never take the violence back.

I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

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.

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!

I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.

And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

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.

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.

Suicide is the only way out.

The Beatles. I didn't like the ?rst couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.

There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins.

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

I'll always be an outrageous character.

Nobody tells me f-k all!

I live in a 9 million dollar turd.

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.

Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.

The bike went up in the air and landed on my back. It broke my neck, smashed my collarbone and splinters of bone severed my main artery. My lung ?lled up with blood. I severed my nerves and to this day I have no feeling there.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

I didn’t have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.

I have no faith in my ability to judge things.

I know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.

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.

I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I'm no good. I can't read.

You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.

Do you want me crucified for my profanity?

God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.

Love and peace to everyone. May your God go with you.

There are no incurable ills.

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.

The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.

I like the word f-k. F-king deal with it and move on to the first f-king question you have.

I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

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.

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

All rehab can do is tell you what’s wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.