John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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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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I've always despised the hippies.
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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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You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.
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Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.
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How can you ban language, words? How're words offensive? And why should I have to tolerate YOUR interpretation? I'm the one using the word. ASK me how I'm using it, don't TELL me. And if you don't like the way I'm using it, so what? It's my right. It's my freedom of expression. Without that, we're nothing but slaves. My language, now fuck off!!!
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You don't write 'God Save The Queen' because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you're fed up with them being mistreated.
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My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.
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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
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I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.
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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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Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
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Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
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I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.
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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
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I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
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I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
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I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
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Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
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Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.
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I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.