Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

Where there's dope, there's hope!

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

Crack has destroyed more families than poverty.

We cannot conceive of a society that is worth building ... on the basis of a drug culture.

Nicotine is as addicting as heroin or cocaine.

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors

I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.

In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

When we started becoming friends [with Prince], I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.

Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food.

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.