Billy Idol Quotes

31 quotes in 410 categories

• I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.
• Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
• I rocked the cradle of love.
• I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
• I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
• I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
• 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…
• 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.
• I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't…
• I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces…
• My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
• Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.
• Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.
• When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.
• Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.
• We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.

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