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" I love America. I love Americans. "
John Lydon
Love
I Love
America
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" I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable. "
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" As a human being, I'm work in process. "
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" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "
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" I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though. "
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" My words are my bullets. "
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" I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate. "
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" I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together. "
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" 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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" Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. "
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" 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. "
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" Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating. "
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" 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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" The joy of life is in the work. "
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" Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy. "
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" Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much. "
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" All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own. "
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" If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away. "
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Opportunity
Say
" Books are like my one and only joy. "
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Like
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" If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. "
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" The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. "
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" There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. "
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Sitting
Song
" I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being. "
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" I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. "
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" Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. "
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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. "
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" Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. "
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" Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better. "
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" Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. "
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" If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. "
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