Art Quote by Billy Idol Download Open image “Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.” — Billy Idol ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Ordinary Ordinary people People People Talk Way
On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and… — Casey Spooner Copy Share Image
Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast. — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop culture from… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
“(I) just had to show there's life in the old dog yet. (You) don't have to go out and shoot me.” — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die. — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
