John Lydon Quotes

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John Lydon

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 31, 1956

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

John Lydon

Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

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As a human being, I'm work in process.

John Lydon

I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va!

John Lydon

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

John Lydon

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

John Lydon

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

John Lydon

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

John Lydon

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.

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It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

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I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

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The joy of life is in the work.

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You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

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We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

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It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

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I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

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Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

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