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Top 30 Billy Childish Quotes (2025 Update)

Billy Childish Quote: “We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.”

1. “We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.”

2. “I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “We believe in a society in delusion, and if you’re awake and not deluded people tell you you’re mad. That’s why I’m a freak and they’re not. But I’m actually not.”

3. “We believe in a society in delusion, and if you’re awake and not deluded people tell you you’re mad. That’s why I’m a freak and they’re not. But I’m actually not.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because ‘you aren’t going to make a living doing that.’ I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.”

4. “I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because ‘you aren’t going to make a living doing that.’ I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you’ve got it, you want to grow it out; when you’ve grown it out, you want to cut it.”

5. “A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you’ve got it, you want to grow it out; when you’ve grown it out, you want to cut it.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I’m not trying to achieve perfection. I don’t like this forced control people have over work.”

6. “I’m not trying to achieve perfection. I don’t like this forced control people have over work.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I’ve dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.”

7. “I’ve dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I coined this term ‘freedom thru limitation’ back in the ’90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring ‘anything can be art’ theory.”

8. “I coined this term ‘freedom thru limitation’ back in the ’90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring ‘anything can be art’ theory.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.”

9. “People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “Remember, a fact is a fact, no matter how hard the liars amongst you might try hushing it up.”

10. “Remember, a fact is a fact, no matter how hard the liars amongst you might try hushing it up.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today’s art – what I call ‘Bankers’ Dada’ – mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I’ve seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, ‘A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards’, is apt in these days of witless chancers.”

11. “Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today’s art – what I call ‘Bankers’ Dada’ – mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I’ve seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, ‘A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards’, is apt in these days of witless chancers.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can’t do it any other way.”

12. “Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can’t do it any other way.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I’ve always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the ’80s it was a surprise to me.”

13. “I’ve always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the ’80s it was a surprise to me.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “It is an artist’s duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.”

14. “It is an artist’s duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.”

15. “I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.”

16. “One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I like being on the margins. You work better there.”

17. “I like being on the margins. You work better there.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I’ve not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I’ll listen to ‘Spiral Scratch’ by the Buzzcocks, or ‘Hippy Hippy Shake’ by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.”

18. “I’ve not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I’ll listen to ‘Spiral Scratch’ by the Buzzcocks, or ‘Hippy Hippy Shake’ by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.”

19. “When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don’t like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.”

20. “Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don’t like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.”

21. “I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.”

22. “My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “The confusion, that one so young – me it seems, because I remember – should be so damaged, that no one looked out for me or cared. And even now, I grin and mock myself out of fear. But I hold the truth aloft, a golden torch, sacred, because no one else dares to.”

23. “The confusion, that one so young – me it seems, because I remember – should be so damaged, that no one looked out for me or cared. And even now, I grin and mock myself out of fear. But I hold the truth aloft, a golden torch, sacred, because no one else dares to.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I’m going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I’ve also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.”

24. “I’m going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I’ve also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I make sure I make a painting – that’s my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.”

25. “I make sure I make a painting – that’s my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I don’t spend a lot of time working if I can help it.”

26. “I don’t spend a lot of time working if I can help it.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I was bullied for the best part of my childhood, and still it comes easy to me. I have to have to bite my lip, to quit from apologising for people walking into me, standing on my feet, and letting go of doors in my face.”

27. “I was bullied for the best part of my childhood, and still it comes easy to me. I have to have to bite my lip, to quit from apologising for people walking into me, standing on my feet, and letting go of doors in my face.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “Artists who don’t paint aren’t artists.”

28. “Artists who don’t paint aren’t artists.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “I think that the mythology of Van Gogh’s life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.”

29. “I think that the mythology of Van Gogh’s life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.”

— Billy Childish

Billy Childish Quote: “No one is responsible, nobody is to blame... Either all are guilty or none...”

30. “No one is responsible, nobody is to blame... Either all are guilty or none...”

— Billy Childish

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