As everyone can confirm who remembers The Osbournes on MTV Ozzy Osbournewho died on Tuesday at the age of 76, a special talent for words. It didn’t matter whether he was coming off the stage after playing in front of 50,000 fans. Or whether he was fighting at home to operate the remote control for the television-the metal pioneer always brought a saying that was also hilarious and unexpected. This is exactly why the family rejected the early proposal to implement the Osbournes as a scripted sitcom instead of as a reality show.
“Do you know what we should do?” Jack Osbourne said to his father in 2000, while Rolling-Stone author Erik Hedegaard watched. “We should bring a camera team to our home over the weekend and show how we really are. It would be like The Real World, but with us.”
“Oh, that would be a damn thing,” replied Ozzy. “Good idea, Jack.”
It was a very, very good idea that changed her all life forever. But the MTV cameras only caught a fraction of the wisdom that Ozzy has given over the years. Here are 17 great quotes from the brilliant head of John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne.
“The crazy thing is: If you have finally understood everything, it is too late to do something. It should be the other way around. We should be born with all the mind and knowledge and then become more and more stupid in old age.” (Via Rolling Stone)
“I’m just dad. It is somehow a shitty life, frankly. A rock star should say: ‘Bring me the Vicodin!’ Or: ‘Give me a bath in a damn Perrier!’ I get dog shit up to the elbows and a load of damn anger. ” (Via Rolling Stone)
Ozzy about sex, sleep and nonsense
“Viagra is a great sleeping pills. I take Viagra and Sharon falls asleep immediately.” (Via guitar world)
“I got rabies vaccinations because I bitten my head with a bat-but that’s okay-the bat had to get ozzy vaccinations.” (Via the Guardian)
“Sometimes it scares me to be Ozzy. But it could have been worse – I could have been a Sting.” (Via YouTube)
“Being sober in a tour bus is completely different from being drunk in a tour bus.” (Via Birmingham World)
“I love a beautiful, old nap – an afternoon nap – that’s the best in the world. Whether you call it a flee of reality or whatever, it is damn great. At least you still wake up on your shoulders and did not fuck another woman.” (Via Rolling Stone)
“Steve Jones from the sex pistols once said to me: ‘I hated the Beatles.’ For me it is like saying that you hate air. ” (Via Rolling Stone)
Ozzy about fame, family and bats
“I am the taste of the month. I know this year I am the version of Roseanne Barr. And ch know, the bladder will burst and I will be the news of yesterday. But I don’t let all of this influence my music. I can still rock like a damned insane.” (Via Rolling Stone)
“For a minute we were a rock band that took coke. In the next we were a cocaine band that played rock.” (Via Rolling Stone)
“My son Jack is sometimes pissed off. One day he said to me: ‘Dad, the difference is whether people laugh with you or over you.’ I said, ‘As long as they laugh, I don’t care.’ “(Via Rolling Stone)
“But when I have the feeling that this show destroyed my family-when I see that my son crack-I will say, ‘You can do me. I don’t want to have a TV show and ultimately bury two children.’ The most important thing for me is love for my family. (Via Rolling Stone)
“Randy [Rhoads] Was too young and too nice to die. It is always the assholes that are 199 years old. ” (Via Rolling Stone)
“I guarantee that if I died tonight, it would mean tomorrow: ‘Ozzy Osbourne, the man who bit off a bat, died in his hotel room …’ I know that will come. But I don’t complain. At least you will remember me.” (Via Rolling Stone)
“I hate vacuum cleaners. They make the vomit damn sound of the world, like a dying gnu that is dragged up and down the hallway.” (Via Rolling Stone)
“We couldn’t even conjure up a fart. We got invitations to play at witch meetings and black trade fairs in the Highgate cemetery. I honestly thought that would be a joke. We were the last hippie band-we were on peace.” (Via Rolling Stone)
“I am no longer in the band because of musical differences. They were musical. I was different.” (Via rock portraits)