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Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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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.
John Lydon
The sounds of anger are not melodic.
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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 don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might have a better, clearer world. But then saying that, we might also get a lot of Donald Trump's running left right and centre.
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I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
John Lydon
U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
John Lydon
Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!
John Lydon
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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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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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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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
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I hate death it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
John Lydon
I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.
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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.
John Lydon
Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.
John Lydon
There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
John Lydon
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.
John Lydon
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.
John Lydon
