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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
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Presenter
Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
Imitation
Humanity
Art
Life

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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
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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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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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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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It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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I don't listen to music. I hate music.
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You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
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Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
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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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I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
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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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Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy.
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Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
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I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
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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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I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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