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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
Guitarist
Lyricist
Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
Television Presenter
Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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Only the fakes survive.
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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
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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 tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.
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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
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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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Books are like my one and only joy.
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I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
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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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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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Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
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Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.
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The country you're born in is where your passport comes from. No, not according to Donald Trump! No, not at all. I resent that kind of extremism of any kind. Left wing, right wing. Anyway at all. Anything that judges other people so harshly and across the board stupidity-wise. I got no time for that.
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As a human being, I'm work in process.
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I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
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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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