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" It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. "
John Lydon
Horrible
Me
Society
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" Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. "
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" 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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" 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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" I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche. "
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" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "
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" Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman. "
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" 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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" 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! "
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" I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains. "
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" I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way. "
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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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" 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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" It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing. "
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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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" No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways. "
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" I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really. "
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" I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie. "
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" 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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" You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on. "
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" If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you. "
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" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "
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" 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. "
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" People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true. "
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" 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. "
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" I like America's diversity and its landscapes. "
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