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.’
BILLY IDOLWell there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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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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If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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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’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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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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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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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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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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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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