I’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
BILLY IDOLI don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
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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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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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Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
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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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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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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.
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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 don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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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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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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