- Deena Weinstein: Critics like hope. The critics tend to be upper-middle-class kids who are liberals, for want of a nastier term, and they want hope and Sabbath was not giving them hope.
- Ozzy Osbourne: We're just a lucky bunch of guys that got together, and something magical happened.
- Ozzy Osbourne: And there's no mystique about it, we didn't all get 'round our fiery cauldron, and throw dead mice in a pot, you know.
- Ozzy Osbourne: We did try it, but it didn't work.
- Deena Weinstein: Lester Bangs was absolutely on the money when he called them the Milton of Rock n' Roll. Milton was this hyper moralist also, and concerned with good and evil.
- Deena Weinstein: In some sense what they did was brought the hippie culture to the working class. Things like smoking dope became really widespread.