Sex Pistols Quotes

• Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

  John Lydon

  Feelings, Rotten, Pistols

  1978 Having walked offstage at the WinterlandBallroomduring The Sex Pistols tour of the US,14 Jan.

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• American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

  Sid Vicious

  Pistols, Boring, Audience

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• I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

  Damien Hirst

  Song, Sex, Medicine

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• Rock n' roll is over, don't you get it? It lasted 25 years and now gets wiped out. The Sex Pistols were the bullet in the brain. They were the last rock and roll band.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Rocks, Years

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• Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

  Julien Temple

  Sex, Pistols, Able

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2000.

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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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• No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people.

  Julien Temple

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Running, Sex, Hero

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• We're Sex Pistols, we ain't fake.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Fake, Pistols

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• When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

  Iggy Pop

  Sex, People, Trying

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Thinking, Pistols

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• People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Sex, People

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• I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Sex, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.

  Boy George

  Sex, Teenager, Rocks

  "Karma is good to chameleon Boy George". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

  Bruno Mars

  Beach, Sex, Queens

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Sex, Successful, Pistols

  "Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

  Boy George

  Sex, Idols, Clubs

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• Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Cbgb, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 still have my "Anarchy in the UK" 7" [ Sex Pistols single]. I'm sure it gave us a context to think about as well as a kind of kick in the ass. But we had all been playing for years at that point.

  David First

  Sex, Thinking, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Sex, Stars

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• I've tried to stay true, in my own fashion, to the ideas of The Sex Pistols, even while I was working with bands like Duran Duran or the Stones, whoever it might be. The thing that was attractive to me personally about videos in the beginning was that it was uncharted territory, and in a sense the record companies didn't know what they were doing.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, Sex, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

  Richard Hell

  Sex, Perfect, Pistols

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• I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sex, Acting, Want

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• The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

  Greg Ginn

  Fashion, Sex, Media

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