John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.
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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
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All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.
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It's no more of that 12 bar ditty wavy hair in the breeze platform boots flap your flare nonsense. It's not a packaged image of third-rate idiots. It's not a pose. We just do our stuff. Hate it as it usually is, you know I was very shocked by the reviews of the last album. I believe none of them. They liked us for the wrong reasons, trendy reasons.
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No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.
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When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
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Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
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I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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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.
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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
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Pop music I have always loved best.
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I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
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If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.
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The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.
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I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.
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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
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As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
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I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.