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If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
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The way the music industry is now geared, it's fewer accolades towards new and upcoming acts. New bands offer bright creativity. It's a set format. A venue would rather hire a DJ than a band, and that's a problem.
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The sounds of anger are not melodic.
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
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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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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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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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I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
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If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?
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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 don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.
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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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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 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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I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.
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