John Lydon Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole”
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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 very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.”
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“I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.”
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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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“I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.”
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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 do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.”
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“When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.”
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“I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.”
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“Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.”
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“I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.”
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“Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.”
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“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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“Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.”
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“I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.”
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“Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.”
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“I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.”
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“Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.”
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“Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!”
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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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“Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.”
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“I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.”
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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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“Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!”
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“I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.”
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“All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.”
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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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“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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“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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