“I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly,
directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the
Alamo at nine o’clock in the morning dressed in a woman’s evening dress sober.”
(Ozzy
Osbourne, MTV News Online, 1992)

“We built a whole stage out of PAs at this festival in London, 117,000 watts.
In fact, a guy called up from four miles away while we were soundchecking and
said he couldn’t hear his TV–four miles away! I ain’t deaf. I’ve just always
liked it loud, you know, the live sound. I think there is something wrong with
you if you like quiet rock and roll.”
(Motorhead’s Lemmy, on www.wilma.com)

“The down side of being outrageous is that you have to go around explaining
your fucking self to people. If you’re too cocky, somebody might just pull out
a fucking gun and cock it and blow your fucking face off. You gotta be really
careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous
world.”
(Ozzy Osbourne, Rolling Stone Online, May ’97)

“I don’t own a gun… I own about 150 guns.”
(Metallica’s James Hetfield, Melody Maker, Nov ’98)

“I don’t own a gun–but I have quite a collection of machetes, swords, knives,
daggers, pepper spray, nunchucks, baseball bats, metal bars….”
(Metallica’s Kirk Hammett , Melody Maker, Nov ’98)

“I’d watch these ‘Best of…’ TV ads which would never include the MC5. Not
only did the music business erase us at the time, but they erased us from the
history of rock music too. So what did I do? Dope. What else are you gonna do?
Sit on top of a shopping mall with an AK-47? That’s not my style.”
(Wayne Kramer, Addicted to Noise, 1995)

“It took a lot of water to down just that fucking bat’s head, let me tell
you. It’s still stuck in my fucking throat, after all these years. People all
over the world say, ‘You’re the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You
do it every night?’ It happened fucking once, for Christ’s sake.”
(Ozzy Osbourne, Rolling Stone Online, May ’97)

“So we’re trying to make the Stooges in 1967, right? We’d go down there to
the basement, all the lights out, only the Christmas tree lights and sort of
an amber lamp on the floor, and I’d play this sort of wild Hawaiian guitar with
a pickup that I invented, which meant that I made two sounds at one time, like
an airplane. That’s the only way I can describe it–it sounded like an airplane.”

 (from I Need More, by Iggy Pop with Anne Wehrer)