Ozzy Osbourne Quotes
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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.
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It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
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I have no faith in my ability to judge things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.
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Dogs smoke in France.
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I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.
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There are no unachievable goals.
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Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?
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We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, "Respect."
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My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'
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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.
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Black illusion is all I ever see.
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Rock and roll is my religion.
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The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.
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Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.
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There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.
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The road to nowhere leads to me.
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It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.
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Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.
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I know that I'm here – I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.
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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.