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" I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are. "
John Lydon
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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
Universe
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" 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. "
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" U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs. "
John Lydon
Experience
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" Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. "
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Always
Music
Loved
" Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. "
John Lydon
Hard
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" A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation. "
John Lydon
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You
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" There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation. "
John Lydon
Creation
Limits
God
" Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman. "
John Lydon
You
Think
People
" You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. "
John Lydon
Like
Brush
Pink
" I love a bit of flag-waving. "
John Lydon
Love
I Love
Bit
" You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental. "
John Lydon
Wake Up
Always
Bed
" Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything. "
John Lydon
Listen
New
Ideas
" I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. "
John Lydon
Liars
Lies
Somebody
" You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. "
John Lydon
Past
Religion
Music
" One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army. "
John Lydon
Education
Beautiful
Things
" 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
" I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. "
John Lydon
Horrible
Irish
Nuns
" My words are my bullets. "
John Lydon
Bullets
Words
" You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. "
John Lydon
Find
You
Sound
" 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 think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. "
John Lydon
Like
Right
Say
" Live music is healthy. "
John Lydon
Music
Live Music
Live
" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "
John Lydon
Passive
Surprisingly
Nation
" My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. "
John Lydon
Gets
Human
Inspiration
" 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
" 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
Love
Habits
Reason
" 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
" I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. "
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Here
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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. "
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Great
Music
Good Things
" 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. "
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Good
Car
Music