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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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Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
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I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.
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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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These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.
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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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The sounds of anger are not melodic.
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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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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 don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.
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I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
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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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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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This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.
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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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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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What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.
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I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.
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You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
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