Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream.

I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

On the street, people think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll lifestyle, but the closest I have ever got to being one is probably lip-synching.

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.