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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.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
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Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
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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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Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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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 don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
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Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
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Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
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Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
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Only the fakes survive.
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It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
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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 hate death it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
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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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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 applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
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You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.
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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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