John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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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.
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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 never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va!
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If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.
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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 nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
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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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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 find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.
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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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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
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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.
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I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
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Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
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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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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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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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I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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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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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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No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.