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 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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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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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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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 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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If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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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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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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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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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