John Lydon Quotes

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John Lydon

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 31, 1956

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

John Lydon

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

John Lydon

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

John Lydon

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

John Lydon

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

John Lydon

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

John Lydon

I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.

John Lydon

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

John Lydon

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

John Lydon

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

John Lydon

If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

John Lydon

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

John Lydon

You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.

John Lydon

I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.

John Lydon

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

John Lydon

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

John Lydon

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

John Lydon

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

John Lydon

I've always despised the hippies.

John Lydon

Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.

John Lydon