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Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be. (John Lydon)
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. View quote
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I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. View quote
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Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that. View quote
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Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. View quote
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I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. View quote
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I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. View quote
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Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself. View quote
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. View quote
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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie. View quote
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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. (John Lydon)
There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation. View quote
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Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating. View quote
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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. View quote
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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. View quote
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My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good. View quote
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I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world. View quote
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are. View quote
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Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here! View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. View quote
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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. View quote
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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. View quote
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If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what. View quote
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