Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

If we have to put music into baskets, then the progressive rock bands I fell in love with as a teenager made sounds that shaded into jazz, folk, metal, and in the case of the wonderful (and sadly missed) Jon Lord, modern classical music.

I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.

Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true, but we had equal parts of both in our musical DNA.

My aunt made stuff; my mom was creative, so I was surrounded by that. When I moved to England, it was '75, and everything was happening. My whole teenage life is England, glam rock and David Bowie and Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop, all that stuff.

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

I'm interested in Patti Smith and women who were iconic in a very hedonistic way.

To me, rock n' roll is rock n' roll. I try to think of it as that. To me, Funkadelic and Metallica exist in the same world.

I was in the top 10 rock n' roll artists - up there with Sid Vicious. I always had that edge.

I really like proto-metal, so stuff like Pentagram is really great, and that's more in the vein of Sabbath and stuff like that.

People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.

Ska is fine. Punk is fine. Putting those two together drove us crazy.