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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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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Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.
John Lydon
I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that.
John Lydon
I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.
John Lydon
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!
John Lydon
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
John Lydon
It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
John Lydon
As a human being, I'm work in process.
John Lydon
'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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You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
John Lydon
Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
John Lydon
I don't listen to music. I hate music.
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The country you're born in is where your passport comes from. No, not according to Donald Trump! No, not at all. I resent that kind of extremism of any kind. Left wing, right wing. Anyway at all. Anything that judges other people so harshly and across the board stupidity-wise. I got no time for that.
John Lydon
I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don’t take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That’s permanent. That’s true love.
John Lydon
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.
John Lydon
What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.
John Lydon
I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
John Lydon
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
John Lydon
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
John Lydon
Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.
John Lydon
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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