Billy Idol Quotes

• If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

  Billy Idol

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

  Billy Idol

  Love, Nice, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

  Billy Idol

  Art, Rocks, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Billy Idol

  Sex, Heart, Dark

  "Billy Idol: The Story of My Drug-Fueled Recording of 'Dancing with Myself'" by Billy Idol, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2014.

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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.

  Billy Idol

  Money, Clothes, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

  Billy Idol

  Thinking, Giving, Causes

  Song: Dancing with Myself

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• I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

  Billy Idol

  Attitude, Thinking, Rocks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 verbalize them.

  Billy Idol

  Fans, Goes On, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

  Billy Idol

  Dance, Dancing, Nothing To Lose

  Song: Dancing With Myself, Album: Don't Stop, 1981

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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... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

  Billy Idol

  Believe, Should Have, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I rocked the cradle of love.

  Billy Idol

  Cradle

  Song: Rock The Cradle Of Love, Album: Charmed Life, 1990

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• I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

  Billy Idol

  Thinking, Able, Exciting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

  Billy Idol

  Stupid, Idols, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Billy Idol

  Real, Ambition, Rocks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

  Billy Idol

  Idols, Long, Care

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.

  Billy Idol

  Blue, Expression, Walks

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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.

  Billy Idol

  Real, Eye, Cutting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?

  Billy Idol

  Dad, Fun, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.

  Billy Idol

  Eye, Waste, Faces

  Song: Eyes Without A Face, Album: Rebel Yell, 1983

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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.

  Billy Idol

  Attitude, Personality, Body

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.'

  Billy Idol

  Hair, Rocks, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

  Billy Idol

  Men, Gun, Needs

  Song: Don't Need a Gun, Album: Whiplash Smile, 1986

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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, 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.

  Billy Idol

  Dog, Past, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.

  Billy Idol

  Dancing, Chance, Asks

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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.

  Billy Idol

  Thinking, People, One Day

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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