Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

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I'm a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don't need training – they just are.

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The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.

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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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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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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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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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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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Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

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I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I've made a career out of it now.

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The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.

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I didn't have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.

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When you're in love, it's not just about the messing around in the sack, it's about how empty you feel when they're gone.

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I think war is just part of human nature. And I'm fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn't make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I'm a Nazi, how come I married a woman who's half Jewish?

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I don't know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn't mine, that's for sure.

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Mind you, it's all bullshit with wine, isn't it? It's just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

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In 1964 something totally unexpected happened. I got a job I enjoyed.

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I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

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The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

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You've got to try and take things to the next level, or you'll just get stuck in a rut.

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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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They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

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All rehab can do is tell you what's wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.

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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.

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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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I grew up having to piss in a bucket 'cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I'll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don't have to strain.

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

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