Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Billy Idol

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British musician Billy Idol.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

William Michael Albert Broad, known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English-American singer and songwriter. He first achieved fame in the 1970s emerging from the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of the group Generation X. Subsequently, he embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made Idol a lead artist during the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in the United States. The name "Billy Idol" was inspired by a schoolteacher's description of him as "idle".

British - Musician | Born: November 30, 1955

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I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

Billy Idol

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?'

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

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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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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 top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?

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

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

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

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I rocked the cradle of love.

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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.

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

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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.

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I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

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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.

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

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

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

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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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Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.

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We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.

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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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Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.

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

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Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.

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Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.

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