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Quotations
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"Happiness to me is getting stoned" [Ozzy] "I used to hate the sight of him, I couldn't stand him, and I used to beat him up whenever I saw him." [Tony on childhood with Ozzy] "I know I ain't going to fucking live to be an old man. I know that." [Ozzy] "I've come to the conclusion that people don't want to know the truth-that I'm a happily married man with three kids that I absolutely adore, and that what I do is entertain people. I am not f--king Dracula" 1989] "I'm an absolute perfectionist. I'm never happy with a finished album. There's always something I don't like." [1990] "If I had to start it all over again, the only thing I would change is I'd learn to read a contract better." [1992] "To be honest, I am a little bit crazy. I accept that. I've always been outrageous. I've never been the every day you. I've always gone over the top with everything" [Ozzy 1985] "Had he lived, I truly believe he'd have been one of the greatest guitar players that ever walked the earth. He was when he was here." [Ozzy on Randy] "You get one and you can't stop. It becomes an addiction." [Ozzy on tattoos] "I'm not the greatest singer in the world, but I do give people entertainment" [1986] "My mother said to me, 'Get a proper job. Quit this f--king around.' She still thinks it's a crazy f--king thing I'm doing" [1985] "Every year I hear, metal is dying. It's been dying since f--king 1978!" [Ozzy on the success of Ozzfest] "Musically they are completely uncompromising, and would rather starve than sell out to more commercial forms of music." [Vertigo Sab Promo] "My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk" [1985] "It's good fun and it's had great rewards. It's been such an eye opener for me. Everything that I have ever wanted to have has come from rock and roll. I've had happiness, I've had sadness. I've had everything. I've experienced life, death, birth, marriage, divorce, and it's been a whole bunch of fun. I wouldn't have it any different. I'd do it all again tomorrow." [1986] "I would hate my children to be the typical rock and roll brats. My father always taught me that if you haven't got anything else, the cheapest thing in the world is good manners." [1986] "A lot of other bands just have guys in the crowd. Ozzy has a mixed audience. But groups like Quiet Riot or Def Leppard attract just the girls, and I find the girls are very fickle. Next year, a prettier band will come up, and your dead. The men are more faithful" [Sharon] "Ozzy had no technical qualifications really. At least Tony or Geezer could play their scales or a B flat chord. Ozzy wouldn't know what a chord was if it fell out of the sky and hit him in on the head. He knew nothing about music whatsoever. All he had was feel. But he had far more going for him than the rest of the band. The band, in my opinion, was purely Ozzy." [Jim Simpson commenting on Ozzy when he was with Sabbath] "I'm the guy kids love and parents hate. The guy mothers love to hate. When you've achieved that, you've achieved a goal." [Ozzy] "We've obviously got what the people want. It's aggressive music and I think America likes aggression." [Ozzy in Sabbath] "Well listen, how does a sparrow make an emergency landing? With a sparrowchute." [Ozzy talking to reception desk in his hotel room] "You hear your mother crying because she has no dough to feed you. Or my father and her always fighting over something. And I used to sit on the front steps all the time and think 'one of these days I'm going to buy a Rolls Royce and drive them out of this shithole'. And I did it." [Ozzy on life before fame] "I never go on stage drunk or stoned or anything." [early days Ozzy] |
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