John Lydon Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  John Lydon

  Years, Cynical, Television

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• It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

  John Lydon

  Sympathy, Nice, Looks

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• [Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Animal, Names

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• I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'

  John Lydon

  Nice, Insults You, Say Anything

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• I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.

  John Lydon

  Heart, Like Her, Kind

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• You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

  John Lydon

  Work Out, World, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.

  John Lydon

  Class, Challenges, Outsiders

  Source: www.axs.com

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• Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

  John Lydon

  Rotten, Middle, Left

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• Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

  John Lydon

  Choices, Want, Lifestyle

  "This Is John Lydon". New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. 2012.

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• Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

  John Lydon

  Common Sense, Disposition, Ill

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty are looking bright. You're dealing with human beings on the cutting edge, and there's bound to be tension. You have to be make room for that, and you can't be too unreasonable, because that's everybody else's role.

  John Lydon

  Cutting, Years, Healthy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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

  John Lydon

  Nice, Irritated, Joyous

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• I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

  John Lydon

  Government, Ideas, Liberty

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• I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that.

  John Lydon

  Leather Jackets, Leather, Jackets

  "This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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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

  Mind, Done, Shapes

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• For me, I'll always stand up for the disenfranchised, and I'm going to make a big point of that. I'm not a protest singer as such, you know? After the endurance course of the early 70s and 60s, I don't want to become one of them twats. But you got to learn to speak the truth.

  John Lydon

  Endurance, Want, Singers

  Source: www.axs.com

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• 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.

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• I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.

  John Lydon

  Integrity, Teenager, Stolen

  Source: www.axs.com

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

  John Lydon

  Giving, Asks, Ifs

  "'This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

  John Lydon

  Country, Hero, Mean

  "What's up? Docs!" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

  John Lydon

  Ideas, Musical, Fabulous

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• It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists. All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals.

  John Lydon

  War, Gay, Black

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• The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

  John Lydon

  Men, Ideas, Gigs

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