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This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.
John Lydon
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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
Actor
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Holloway
London
Johnny Rotten
John Joseph Lydon
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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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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
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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 come from the school of do it yourself mate. Unfortunately over the years there's been quite a few of, Can you do it for us Johnny, so we can grab all your glory?.
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Britain's an island it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
John Lydon
Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
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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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Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
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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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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.
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The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
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I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.
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Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.
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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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One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
John Lydon
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 don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
John Lydon
