John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

John Joseph Lydon

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• The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • City
  • Habits

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Attitude

• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Society
  • Very
  • Dignity

• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Good
  • Power
  • Culture

• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Fun
  • End
  • Circumstance

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Very
  • Much
  • Favor

• I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Child

• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • Limitations

• So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Long
  • Done
  • Cold

• I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Real
  • Normal
  • Straight

• Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; forward into battle see his banners go!

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • War
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Die
  • Always

• The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Time
  • Man
  • Relationship

• If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

  

  Bob Ross

• In a world where there is enlightenment, intelligence, kindness, awareness of others' needs and others' well-being, there is no terrorism. And in a world of viciousness and narrow-mindedness and only one way, there will be terrorism. Our challenge, in our country, is to find a way to disagree amongst ourselves without being so awful about it.

  

  James Woods
  • World
  • Country
  • Challenge

• You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
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  • Music
  • History