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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.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote no future for you! Don't let the irony be lost.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.
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U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.
John Lydon
The sounds of anger are not melodic.
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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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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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I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
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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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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
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I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.
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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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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 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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I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.
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Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
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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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