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John Lydon Inspirational Quotes (141)

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I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.
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It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
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It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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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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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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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.
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Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.
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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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I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
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Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.
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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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I come from the school of do it yourself mate. Unfortunately over the years there's been quite a few of, Can you do it for us Johnny, so we can grab all your glory?.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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As a human being, I'm work in process.
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I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
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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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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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If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right
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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.
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I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.
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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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