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John Lydon

English

January 31, 1956

Musician

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Books are like my one and only joy.

Tags: Like Only Books

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I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

Tags: Anything Records Release

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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

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I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

Tags: Think I Think Nothing

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I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

Tags: Death You People

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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

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Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

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I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

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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.

Tags: Society You Me

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

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Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

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I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

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Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Tags: Music More Than

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've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

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Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

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I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

Tags: Music Think Because

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

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I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

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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.

Tags: Alone You Just

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

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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.

Tags: Good Music History

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

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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've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

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Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.

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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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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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