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" Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you. "
John Lydon
More
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You
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" Live music is healthy. "
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" You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry! "
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I Am
" People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. "
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Media
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" 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. "
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" I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. "
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Wrong
Cannot
" I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. "
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Horrible
Irish
Nuns
" I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love. "
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Commitment
True
" I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. "
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My Own
Trumpet
Own
" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "
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Easy
Song
Write
" 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! "
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Ideas
Discipline
You
" My words are my bullets. "
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Bullets
Words
" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
John Lydon
Hate
Death
You
" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "
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Ideas
Stop
Day
" 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. "
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Want
Desert
Island
" Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. "
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Every
Written
Single
" My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions. "
John Lydon
Thinking
Me
You
" Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. "
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Hard
Being
Themselves
" 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. "
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Love
Habits
Reason
" Pop music I have always loved best. "
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Always
Best
Loved
" I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. "
John Lydon
Free
Like
Pets
" I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. "
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Culture
Like
Shopping
" 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
Great
Life
Sex
" Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. "
John Lydon
Life
My Life
Busy
" You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. "
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Like
Brush
Pink
" I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk. "
John Lydon
People
Crazy
Crazy People
" Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. "
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Love
Adore
Happens
" 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. "
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Always
Way
Done
" 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
Universe
Music
Listening
" I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back. "
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Back
Boy
Me
" 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