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


Billy Idol

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Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOL
Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
FREDDIE MERCURY
Billy Idol called... he wants his look back.
BRAD PITT
Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back.
JENNIFER ANISTON
The opposite of war isnt peace its creation
JONATHAN LARSON
Everybody wanted a piece of Billy the Kid's rock.
VANCE STEVENS
Unconditional love of self isnt forced...its felt and flows naturally
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ...
BORIS PASTERNAK
We don't actually have Billy Idol in our show. But we do have what you might call a Billy Idol subst...
CHAD BEGUELIN
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
The idea that an indie-rock kid can be made into a TV idol, a heartthrob, is hilarious and gratifyin...
JOSH SCHWARTZ
The real debate around this witch hunt isnt between us and the Vatican, its between the Vatican and ...
JOE SOLMONESE
There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poet...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk
FRANK ZAPPA
The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
GAVIN DEGRAW
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't...
FRANK ZAPPA
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't re...
FRANK ZAPPA
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't re...
FRANK ZAPPA
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can...
FRANK ZAPPA
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who c...
FRANK ZAPPA
I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn...
BILLY IDOL
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOL
I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.
BILLY IDOL
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.
BILLY IDOL
It was a natural progression with the band,
BILLY IDOL
It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You'...
BILLY IDOL
Face to faceAnd back to backYou see and feelMy sex attackSing itFlesh, flesh for fantasyWe wantFlesh...
BILLY IDOL
I'll do anythingFor my sweet sixteen,And I'll do anythingFor little run away child.
BILLY IDOL
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL
I don't play 100% punk rock music,
BILLY IDOL
Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
BILLY IDOL
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.
BILLY IDOL
My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his busi...
BILLY IDOL
It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came a...
BILLY IDOL
So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think.
BILLY IDOL
I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm...
BILLY IDOL
But your empty eyesSeem to pass me byLeave me dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL
Well there's nothing to loseAnd there's nothing to proveI'll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
BILLY IDOL
We were all following in their path. I believe I'm still following in their path today.
BILLY IDOL
I still put that into Devil's Playground. I believe there's a punk rock attitude to it. I don't thin...
BILLY IDOL
So let's sink another drink'Cause it'll give me time to think.
BILLY IDOL
In 1995, I ran into a brick wall. I had no band anymore, and the music business was getting quite so...
BILLY IDOL
If I had the chanceI'd ask the world to dance.
BILLY IDOL
It's a nice day to start againIt's a nice day for a white weddingIt's a nice day to start again.
BILLY IDOL
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOL
My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going...
BILLY IDOL
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow...
BILLY IDOL
The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want t...
BILLY IDOL
Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show you...
BILLY IDOL
It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. ...
BILLY IDOL
I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
BILLY IDOL
I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.
BILLY IDOL
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was pr...
BILLY IDOL
There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. ...
BILLY IDOL
I rocked the cradle of love.
BILLY IDOL
They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk r...
BILLY IDOL
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
BILLY IDOL
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - mone...
N. T. WRIGHT
Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of mali...
CHARLES C. MANN
The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY
Every season has its own art and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of morta...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
GAVIN BRYARS
The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household tal...
RUDOLF ARNHEIM
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
And that to me, still, is the exceptional thing about Bruce Springsteen. He writes about ordinary th...
ANTHONY ESPOSITO
chose Pitcairn because of its people. They're friendly and they'll talk to you -- and I've learned a...
CHARLES GIBSON
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at le...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which ...
DONNA GODDARD
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the S...
BOY GEORGE
There isnt always an explanation for everything.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
We dont like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. Well, art is art, isnt it? Still, on t...
GROUCHO MARX
There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He Tom Brown never wants anythin...
THOMAS HUGHES
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for peop...
FRANK ZAPPA
There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appea...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediate...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share wha...
DEREK THOMPSON
Billy Rankin is a true Glasgow rock legend. He has everything going for him: he's a brilliant guitar...
ROBERT FIELDS
The catalogs of Motown and the Soul '70s and Rock & Roll '60s are disappearing from retail shelves. ...
IRA PITTELMAN
Opening your mind isnt as simple as opening your eyes.
ANDONI GARCIA
The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable ...
KARL WIGGINS
People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't...
BILLY JOEL
People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the wee...
CARLO PONTI
There was talk the Chinese government will let its people visit Taiwan soon.
DEREK LAM
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not...
ROBERT PINSKY
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communica...
SHEPARD FAIREY
It would be grave mistake, I think, to talk only in terms of attacks on terrorists and not to think ...
RUUD LUBBERS
Everyday isnt good, but there is something good in every day.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
I definitely thought Billy won, but, I guess the judges saw it a different way.
BRAD WICK
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
People are known by the way they walk, talk and balk.
VIKRANT PARSAI

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Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
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I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. ...
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I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was pr...
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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. ...
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I rocked the cradle of love.
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Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
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They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk r...
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If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
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Some of the wires were rusted in two.
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For corrosion, you need a combination of oxygen and moisture. At this point we do not know exactly h...
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The best director is the one you don't see.
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Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
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My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
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Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
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The best things in life are free- and $19.95.
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I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
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God has a big eraser.
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I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
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Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER
They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rat...
BILLY JOEL
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than...
BILLY JOEL
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
BILLY CRYSTAL
I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I...
BILLY CORGAN
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
BILLY JOEL
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ...
BILLY CORGAN
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's grea...
BILLY EVANS
Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threat...
BILLY CRYSTAL
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLY
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attai...
BILLY CORGAN
When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and fam...
BILLY BALDWIN
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM
I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticid...
BILLY CASPER
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and fre...
BILLY COLLINS
I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
BILLY CRYSTAL
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor...
BILLY GRAHAM
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little...
BILLY GRAHAM
Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
BILLY MITCHELL
Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get do...
BILLY GRAHAM
There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for tel...
BILLY CRUDUP