Ian Dury Quotes

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

My fans are lunatics. I encourage mosh pits, I encourage lunacy, I make music to let go to.

Dance excites me.

When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

Some of my happiest moments have been dancing.

I love getting crazy and sweaty and wild.

I just loved EDM because I felt like it inspired dance and movement.

Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?

I didn't know how to dance, so I just jumped up and down and bashed people. Then everybody else started doin' it, but they didn't get it right, so I quit.

Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.

I always loved music, to dance, and to be really active. When I started skating, it was the first time all of these things came together. It felt like magic, and I always wanted to be at the rink.

If there was a wrong note, it didn't matter as long as it was rocking.

The more rocking, the better.

When I hit the dance floor, I hit the dance floor pretty hard!

Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.

Vegas is really rock and roll.

Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if it's all meaningless.

No matter which way you do it you need to make something happen and get a song that makes you feel a certain way, whether that's making you tap your foot or beat someone up or whatever you're doing, you just need some passion about it.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

The wild night is calling.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for