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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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My words are my bullets.
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For me, I'll always stand up for the disenfranchised, and I'm going to make a big point of that. I'm not a protest singer as such, you know? After the endurance course of the early 70s and 60s, I don't want to become one of them twats. But you got to learn to speak the truth.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.
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Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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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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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've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
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I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
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The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
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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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I come from the school of do it yourself mate. Unfortunately over the years there's been quite a few of, Can you do it for us Johnny, so we can grab all your glory?.
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If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.
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Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.
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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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