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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.

John Lydon

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John Lydon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 31
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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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I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
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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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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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Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.
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As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
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Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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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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Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.
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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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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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