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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.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
Guitarist
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Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
Television Presenter
Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don’t take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That’s permanent. That’s true love.
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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 like America's diversity and its landscapes.
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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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Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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I don't listen to music. I hate music.
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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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When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole
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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 don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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Books are like my one and only joy.
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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
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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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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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I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.
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Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
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I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
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