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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
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Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
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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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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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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.
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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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There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
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One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
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Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!
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I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
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Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.
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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 could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
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Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.
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