I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOLPart of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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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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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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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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.
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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 love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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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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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 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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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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