Top 200 Ozzy Osbourne Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I wanted to be the fifth Beatle.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

102. “Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they’re absolutely stewed out of their brains.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

103. “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

104. “There’s no present, there’s no future, I don’t even know about the past.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

105. “Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?”

— Ozzy Osbourne

106. “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

107. “Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

108. “My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

109. “People think I’m crazy, but I’m in demand.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

111. “I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

114. “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.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

115. “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

116. “I tried heroin once and I didn’t like it. It frightened me.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

117. “I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

118. “Chocolate thickens the saliva, which isn’t good news if you’ve gotta recite Shakespeare or sing Iron Man. Having said that, you’re not supposed to drink tea either but I still do before gigs. It’s not very rock and roll, but it’s like a magic potion to me.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

119. “I live in a 9 million dollar turd.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

120. “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

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

122. “I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f – – thing. First, I couldn’t function without it. Then I couldn’t do anything with or without it. Then I thought, “This is the end of the line for my fun days.””

— Ozzy Osbourne

123. “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!”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

125. “I hated school. Hated it.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

126. “If that’s the only thing that’s stopping war then thank God for the bomb.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

127. “With time, people forget to say, “Darling I love you.” just that word...”

— Ozzy Osbourne

128. “There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

130. “I don’t know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

131. “He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

132. “Take my hand and we’ll go riding through the sunshine from above. We’ll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

133. “I’m not a big fan of TV. It’s an unavoidable situation being Ozzy Osbourne, people want you to go on chat shows, and I’m not good at it. I don’t feel comfortable doing it.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

134. “The introduction of heartache began as a child.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

135. “Destiny planned out, I don’t need no hand out.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

136. “I have a night off on Halloween. It’s Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

137. “Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody – thet’s my philosophy.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

138. “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.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

139. “I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn’t understand dyslexia.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

141. “It was one of the greatest experiences of my life to meet Paul McCartney. It was phenomenal.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

142. “International rock star – gravy maker extraordinaire.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

143. “I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I’m the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

144. “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!”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

147. “I’m hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He’s someone I can definitely identify with.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

148. “I’ve had so much good luck happen to me that I can’t handle bad luck.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

150. “Black Sabbath wasn’t like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.”

— Ozzy Osbourne