John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.
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I was the first in my family to graduate college.
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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
