I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOLThere was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn’t help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don’t.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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I’m rolling in the feces of my greatest hits – that’s a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.
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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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I’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
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The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.
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I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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I didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
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Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
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I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it…
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