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.
BILLY IDOLThe 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.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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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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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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 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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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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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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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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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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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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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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