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" I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone. "
John Lydon
Done
Never
Hurt
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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. "
John Lydon
Good
Car
Music
" The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. "
John Lydon
Art
Live
Radio
" 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
" You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things. "
John Lydon
You
Walls
Trying
" 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. "
John Lydon
Great
Meeting
Perfect
" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "
John Lydon
Easy
Song
Write
" 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. "
John Lydon
You
Society
Me
" I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests. "
John Lydon
Roll
Interests
Business
" 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! "
John Lydon
You
Beautiful
I Am
" I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. "
John Lydon
Love
Moment
Out
" 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
" Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. "
John Lydon
Music
Language
Greatest
" There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. "
John Lydon
Table
Sitting
Song
" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "
John Lydon
Love Is
Love
Minutes
" I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are. "
John Lydon
Best
Dressing
Find
" If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them. "
John Lydon
Autograph
Your
You
" Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated. "
John Lydon
Democracy
Country
Understand
" Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. "
John Lydon
Away
Human
Choices
" When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. "
John Lydon
Chaos
Politics
Poverty
" I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. "
John Lydon
You
Put
Dog
" I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. "
John Lydon
Liars
Lies
Somebody
" 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
" If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker. "
John Lydon
Way
Better
Feel
" 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. "
John Lydon
Understand
You
Twice
" 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
" 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
" The joy of life is in the work. "
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Work
Joy
Life
" 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. "
John Lydon
Upside Down
World
Time
" 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
" I've never said I'm a communist. "
John Lydon
Never
Communist
Said