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.’
BILLY IDOLElvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
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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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I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.
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I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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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 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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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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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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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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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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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