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.
BILLY IDOLRock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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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 love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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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’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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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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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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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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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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