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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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Life
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I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
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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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For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.
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Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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Only the fakes survive.
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The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
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Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote no future for you! Don't let the irony be lost.
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My words are my bullets.
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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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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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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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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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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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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
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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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I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.
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I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
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