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Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I remember one night in Memphis, I'd come out of a blackout, and I didn't know where I was. I'm feeling through the darkness - I was asleep in the middle of a freeway. I went up to this car in the darkness, and it was a cop car.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.
Geezer Butler Black Sabbath -
He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
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 Black Sabbath -
I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I went vegetarian when I was about… 8 years old. One day I cut this piece of meat open and blood came out of it, and I realized, I asked my mother, 'Where did this come from?,' and she said, 'From animals,' and that was it.
Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
Geezer Butler Black Sabbath -
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
Geezer Butler Black Sabbath -
Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd.
Tony Iommi Black Sabbath -
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 Black Sabbath -
I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
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 Black Sabbath -
My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
Geezer Butler Black Sabbath -
Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
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I'll always be an outrageous character.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.
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The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.
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None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath