John Lydon Quotes
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Books are like my one and only joy.
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Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.
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Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
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I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
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I don't listen to music. I hate music.
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I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.
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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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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
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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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There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
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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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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'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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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
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What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.
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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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Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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A healthy mind can live in an unhealthy body.
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I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in!
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I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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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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You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.
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I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.
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I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
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