I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOLIf I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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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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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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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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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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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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 don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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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 talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
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