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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
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Television Presenter
Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
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I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
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The sounds of anger are not melodic.
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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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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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I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.
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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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This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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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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I've never said I'm a communist.
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As a human being, I'm work in process.
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I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
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I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.
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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 think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
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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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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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