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

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

Billy Idol

#Art Quotes #Rocks Quotes #People Quotes

“I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.”

Source : "The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands". Interview with Michelle Orange, www.ifc.com. August 3, 2009.
“You cannot endure what you never enjoy!”
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
“What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it does some good.”
“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.”
“Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”
“School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the atticâ€”I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of ***** I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.”

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