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" I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them. "
John Lydon
Doing
Love
Me
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" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "
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" I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party. "
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" 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. "
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" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "
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" Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. "
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" I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. "
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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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" I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world. "
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" I love a bit of flag-waving. "
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" I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one. "
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" I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. "
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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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" I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am. "
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Prison
Joy
I Am
" Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. "
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Boring
You
Society
" I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. "
John Lydon
Free
Like
Pets
" 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. "
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More
Trying
You
" Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. "
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Written
Single
" Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! "
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Common Sense
Common
" 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. "
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Great
Life
Sex
" 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. "
John Lydon
Name
Family
Strange
" 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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You
Beautiful
I Am
" Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. "
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" Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top. "
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Wooden
" I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. "
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Nuns
" Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense. "
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You
" I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. "
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" I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. "
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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. "
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" Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. "
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