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I'm not very good at handling stupid people. I must admit. (John Lydon)
Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. View quote
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When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. View quote
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I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. View quote
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. View quote
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I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. View quote
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The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. View quote
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There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. View quote
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It's a record that I still can play to this day, and still hear new things. View quote
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Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. View quote
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If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. (John Lydon)
Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. View quote
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I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though. View quote
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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together. View quote
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Books are like my one and only joy. View quote
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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. View quote
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Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. View quote
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I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party. View quote
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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. View quote
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. View quote
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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. (John Lydon)
I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable. View quote
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Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. View quote
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