Top 200 Ozzy Osbourne Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I loved being a dad. It’s just so much fun watching these little people you’ve brought into the world as they develop and grow up.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

153. “For years I’ve had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication – I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

154. “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

155. “I’d like to sing songs that are mellower. I don’t want to be screaming when I’m 60.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

156. “It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, “Hallelujah!” I thought I’d found the meaning of life!”

— Ozzy Osbourne

157. “The rest of the guys in Sabbath became boring old farts, and there I was, this crazy guy, still into wrecking hotel rooms and having parties.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

158. “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.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

159. “If I go out with a jacket and a pair of trousers that my wife doesn’t like, you can bet your ass it ain’t in my wardrobe the following day. I say that it gets lost in the sky.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

160. “I discovered rock’n’roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

162. “Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there’s no excuse for being cruel, even if you’re a bored teenage kid.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

163. “I’m one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

164. “Tony Iommi – the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

165. “I suppose there’s a lot of people that’ve got a better life than me. But I don’t know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

166. “My wife can sniff out a lie from six thousand miles away. And I’m the world’s worst liar, anyway.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

167. “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.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

168. “I open the door for old ladies, I help old ladies across the road. I do a show for leukemia every year, but I don’t broadcast that because it’s against my image.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

169. “I’ve been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, ‘I’ve kicked the heroin, but I can’t let go of the tobacco.’ I haven’t smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

171. “I just can’t wake from these scary dreams.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

172. “Every shopaholic needs an accomplice.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

173. “Y’know, swearing is just part of who we are – we’re forever effing and blinding.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

174. “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.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

175. “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.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

177. “Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

178. “I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I’m no good. I can’t read.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

179. “I’m not trying to twist people’s heads around. I’m not trying to say, “Believe in me.””

— Ozzy Osbourne

180. “I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people’s mouths.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

181. “Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

182. “In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you’d phone up the office and they’d send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don’t know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn’t happen to.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

183. “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.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

184. “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.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

185. “I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy’s dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I’ve always sold out, so who’s saying it’s all over?”

— Ozzy Osbourne

186. “I believe in what I do. I mean, I don’t go out – I don’t have the clothes or drink anymore, I don’t do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

188. “I was always apologizing for yesterday’s behavior and I got tired of it. I feel it’s good being straight. As I did when I first got high. It’s a high to be straight because I was getting loaded every day.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

189. “You’ve got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

190. “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.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

191. “I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

192. “In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

193. “I didn’t really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can’t say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s – – was in front of me and got me buzzed.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

194. “I know that I’m here – I believe that I’m here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

195. “Sharon saved my life, Sharon is my life, and I love her. And I was terrified that I was going to lose her. But as much as I wanted everything to be normal and right, I was terribly sick, physically and mentally.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

197. “I wasn’t exactly much fun to be around. Being with me was like falling into an abyss.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

198. “The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Ozzy Osbourne

200. “When I slept outside in winter, it wasn’t unusual for me to wake up blue in the face with icicles on my nose. In those days, there was no such thing as hypothermia.”

— Ozzy Osbourne