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I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
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I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.
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If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
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It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.
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There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
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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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Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.
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I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.
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For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.
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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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I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
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I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.
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Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
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