John Lydon Quotes - Page 10

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• I will always pay respect and homage to my early years, because that's what gave me the initial push to go on and do what it is I do. That's where I learned the love and respect for music.

  John Lydon

  Years, Goes On, Pay

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Anybody who says, "Look, John, I'm a politician. Don't believe a word I say," is a friend of mine.

  John Lydon

  Believe, Looks, Politician

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

  John Lydon

  School, Discovery, Sharks

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• I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

  John Lydon

  Perfect, Care, Embodiment

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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

  Writing, People, Competition

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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.

  John Lydon

  Sorry, Rude, Nasty

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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.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Thinking, Challenges

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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.

  John Lydon

  Ipods, People, Listening

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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!

  John Lydon

  Song, Mean, Ideas

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

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• The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

  John Lydon

  Art, Stars, Musician

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

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• What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.

  John Lydon

  Art, Want, Kind

  Source: www.axs.com

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