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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
Guitarist
Lyricist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
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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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If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right
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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 like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.
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For me, the anarchy movement is hilarious. It's all under .org, which is of course government sponsored websites, and then they're all wearing corporate clothing from the Dr.Martin's to the back sacks and the cell phones, they're all flying around on corporate jets and using corporate highways. Very anarchistic!
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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.
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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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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
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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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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'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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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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My words are my bullets.
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