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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
Actor
Guitarist
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Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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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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Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.
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I've never said I'm a communist.
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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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For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
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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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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
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I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.
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I will always pay respect and homage to my early years, because that's what gave me the initial push to go on and do what it is I do. That's where I learned the love and respect for music.
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I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.
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I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
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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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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.
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I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
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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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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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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 have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.
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