John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.
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The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
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I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
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I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.
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It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
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I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
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If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
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I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
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If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.
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Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.
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It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
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I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.
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Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.
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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
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Live music is healthy.
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I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.
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Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
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Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
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Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
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My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
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Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.
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I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.