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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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Holloway
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Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.
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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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For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.
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I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.
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Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote no future for you! Don't let the irony be lost.
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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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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.
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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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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 like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.
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I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
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I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
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I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.
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I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
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