Quotes By Buzz Osborne

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.

All teens are in trouble in one form or another.

I'm not a complainer, I'm a doer.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.