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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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Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.
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I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.
John Lydon
I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
John Lydon
Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.
John Lydon
I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
John Lydon
Books are like my one and only joy.
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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 nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
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You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
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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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I hate death it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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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.
John Lydon
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
John Lydon
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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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.
John Lydon
I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.
John Lydon
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!
John Lydon
I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
John Lydon
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.
John Lydon