John Joseph Lydon Quotes
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I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.
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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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People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
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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 mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
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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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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
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My words are my bullets.
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I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
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You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
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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.
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
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One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
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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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I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.
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There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
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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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Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
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There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
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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.