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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.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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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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The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
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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 never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that.
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
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You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
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I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
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Books are like my one and only joy.
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Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.
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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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Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
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I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.
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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 love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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My words are my bullets.
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I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
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When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole
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