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For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
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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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Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!
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It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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I've never said I'm a communist.
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.
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When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole
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Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
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Britain's an island it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
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I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don’t take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That’s permanent. That’s true love.
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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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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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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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For me, I'll always stand up for the disenfranchised, and I'm going to make a big point of that. I'm not a protest singer as such, you know? After the endurance course of the early 70s and 60s, I don't want to become one of them twats. But you got to learn to speak the truth.
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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'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.
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There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.
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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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