Ozzy Osbourne Quotes
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The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.
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Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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My stay in Camp Betty was the longest I'd been without drink or drugs in my adult life. [...] At first, they put me in a room with a guy who owned a bowling alley, but he snored like an asthmatic horse, so I moved and ended up with a depressive mortician. [...] The mortician snored even louder than the bowling alley guy - he was like a moose with a tracheotomy.
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Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I’ve never been back to his graveside. I’d like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side.
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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.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.
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Life's not all about money.
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
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What is the world coming to?
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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.
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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.
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It took a lot of water to down just that fucking bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my fucking throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened fucking once, for Christ's sake.
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Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.
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Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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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.
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
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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.
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I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.
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I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.
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Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
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What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.