I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOLElvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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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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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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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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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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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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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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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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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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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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