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I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.
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My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers.'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.' And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.
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I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'
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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.
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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.
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All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.
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When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.
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Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.
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As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.
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You can never take the violence back.
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Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.
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I'm just a dreamer I dream my life away i'm just a dreamer Who dreams of better days
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Suicide is the only way out.
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One thing that does confuse me, is that there are more religions in this world than ever, yet there's only supĀposed to be one God.
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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.
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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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Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.
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As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.
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You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.
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Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.
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Rock and roll is my religion.
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I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.
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There are no unsavable souls.