John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.
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I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
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Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
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My favourite album by her is The Dreaming, and I think she produced that one herself. That got a lot of criticism - but I loved it. It was overloaded with textures, and tones and all manner of things. It’s a record that I still can play to this day, and still hear new things.
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I've never said I'm a communist.
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I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
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It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
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I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
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There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
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My words are my bullets.
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Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
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I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.
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I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
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Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal - it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just 'too much' - but that's exactly what drew me in.
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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.