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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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John Joseph Lydon
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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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Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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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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I don't listen to music. I hate music.
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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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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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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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'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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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.
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Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
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