Ozzy Osbourne Quotes (17 Quotes)

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 couldn't kill him. I couldn't live with that on my conscience

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

To be a parent, especially to rock 'n' roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth, ... You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.

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

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.

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!

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

I thought at the end of the day they're never going to do it.

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

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

What is the world coming to?

I bit the head off a live bat the other night. It was like eating a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather.

Dickinson got what he deserved. Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away with talking . . . about my family night after night

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'm always working on trying to better myself, you know I think that that is an ongoing thing with me.

Considering the amount of talent that comes out of this country, it should have been done 20 years ago,

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