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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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.
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I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va!
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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
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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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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
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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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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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No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.
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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 tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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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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Pop music I have always loved best.
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There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid.
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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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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love.
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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 don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
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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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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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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.