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Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
John Joseph Lydon -
I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
John Joseph Lydon
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I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.
John Joseph Lydon -
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.
John Joseph Lydon -
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
John Joseph Lydon -
When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.
John Joseph Lydon -
Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
John Joseph Lydon -
I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
John Joseph Lydon
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I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.
John Joseph Lydon -
As a human being, I'm work in process.
John Joseph Lydon -
A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.
John Joseph Lydon -
I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
John Joseph Lydon -
I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.
John Joseph Lydon -
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
John Joseph Lydon
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Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.
John Joseph Lydon -
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.
John Joseph Lydon -
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
John Joseph Lydon -
People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
John Joseph Lydon -
We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.
John Joseph Lydon -
No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.
John Joseph Lydon
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I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.
John Joseph Lydon -
It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.
John Joseph Lydon -
Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
John Joseph Lydon -
When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
John Joseph Lydon