John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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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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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.
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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
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I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.
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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
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No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.
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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 one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.
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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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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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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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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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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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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
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The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
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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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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
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Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.
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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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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
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If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.
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Replying to the question of the presenter: 'where did the name 'Sex Pistols' come from, who thought this name up?' Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.