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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
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
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I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
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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 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 love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
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For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.
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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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I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
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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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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.
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If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
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