John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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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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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
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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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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
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I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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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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I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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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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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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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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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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Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
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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'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.
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Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.
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There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
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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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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
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Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.