Art & Creativity Quote by Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne’s line is a sneer and a love letter at the same time: a blunt, almost playground phrasing that turns “music” into something bodily, dangerous, and gleefully impolite. “What is this?” is the classic setup of an outsider’s alarm - the parent, the critic, the pearl-clutcher confronting loudness as if it were a public health event. Ozzy answers in their voice, then twists it into a backhanded endorsement. If it gives you a “brain seizure,” good. That’s the point.

The intent isn’t medical; it’s myth-making. Heavy metal has always traded in the rhetoric of excess: volume that feels like impact, distortion that reads as menace, performance that dares you to call it too much. “Brain seizure” exaggerates the sensory overload into a cartoon of harm, which is exactly how moral panics talk about youth culture - as contamination, as damage. Ozzy recycles that panic as punchline and brand identity.

There’s subtext, too, about class and taste. “Seizure” is the crude shorthand of someone unimpressed by polite critical language, swatting away the idea that music needs to be refined to be legitimate. Coming from the Prince of Darkness persona, it’s also a wink at the long history of accusations that Sabbath-era heaviness was corrupting minds. The joke lands because it’s self-aware: Ozzy knows the stereotype, leans into it, and turns condemnation into advertising.