There 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.
BILLY IDOLIt 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.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going ‘straight,’ but I was just getting weirder – at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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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They wouldn’t play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, ‘Punk rock doesn’t sell advertising, it won’t make any money.’
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I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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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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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down – I’m out on a limb here, so watch my back.
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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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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.
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If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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