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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
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Television Presenter
Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.
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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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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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The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
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There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.
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If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
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I've never said I'm a communist.
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Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
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You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.
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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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This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
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Only the fakes survive.
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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right
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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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Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
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I hate death it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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