I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOLI think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
More Billy Idol Quotes
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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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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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If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.
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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
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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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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 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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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
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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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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
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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 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 the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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