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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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I don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might have a better, clearer world. But then saying that, we might also get a lot of Donald Trump's running left right and centre.
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I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
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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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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
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I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
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Only the fakes survive.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
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I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
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Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
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All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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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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It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.
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I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.
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