John Lydon Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

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

  John Lydon

  Music, Song, Writing

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

• There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

  John Lydon

  Song, Writing, Epic

• There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

  John Lydon

  Song, Rolling, Stones

• 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.

  John Lydon

  Song, Concerts, Certain

  "I don't hate Pink Floyd" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2010.

• I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.

  John Lydon

  Song, Writing, Fake

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

• I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

  John Lydon

  Song, Feelings, Matter

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

• I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

  John Lydon

  Song, Rap, Years

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Liot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

• I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

  John Lydon

  Song, Memories, Believe

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

• U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

  John Lydon

  Song, Should Have, Band

• I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.

  John Lydon

  Song, Desire, Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

  John Lydon

  Song, Thinking, Islands

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

• 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!

  John Lydon

  Song, Mean, Ideas

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

• 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

  Song, Grief, Past

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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