John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
-
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
-
I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
-
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.
-
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
-
I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
-
Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.
-
I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
-
By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
-
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
-
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
-
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
-
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
-
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
-
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
-
Music is really something that makes people whole.
-
Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
-
I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.
-
With 'Hannibal,' it's almost like the music is part of the furniture, so as a character goes from one room to another room, or we go from one place to another or whatever, the music is just going with it the whole time the same way that the audience is sort of tracking it and following along.
-
I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.
-
There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.
-
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
