Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Out
Walk
Young
Related Quotes:
" I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being. "
John Lydon
You
Human
Human Being
" Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. "
John Lydon
Always
Important
Rules
" 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music. "
John Lydon
Music
Place
American
" 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. "
John Lydon
Positive
Deep
Life
" Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top. "
John Lydon
Going
Much
Wooden
" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
John Lydon
Fundamentalism
Wrong
Cannot
" I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit. "
John Lydon
You
True
Fear
" People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. "
John Lydon
People
Media
Allow
" The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort. "
John Lydon
Live
Color
Born
" I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie. "
John Lydon
Sensible
Lie
Me
" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "
John Lydon
Best
You
People
" People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other. "
John Lydon
Blame
You
Poor
" Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! "
John Lydon
Care
Death
Lunch
" Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy. "
John Lydon
Just
Man
Heaven
" 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
Great
Proud
School
" I've never said I'm a communist. "
John Lydon
Never
Communist
Said
" I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. "
John Lydon
Like
Left
Through
" I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space. "
John Lydon
Space
Respect
Religion
" We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist. "
John Lydon
Need
Us
Want
" I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. "
John Lydon
My Own
Trumpet
Own
" I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car. "
John Lydon
Good
Car
Music
" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "
John Lydon
Best
Singer
World
" As a human being, I'm work in process. "
John Lydon
Process
Work
Human Being
" You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things. "
John Lydon
You
Walls
Trying
" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "
John Lydon
Gets
Human
Inspiration
" You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. "
John Lydon
Find
You
Sound
" 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
Said
Sex
Music
" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "
John Lydon
Passive
Surprisingly
Nation
" I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. 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. "
John Lydon
Change
Love
Habits
" Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. "
John Lydon
Island
Place
Better