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" Live music is healthy. "
John Lydon
Music
Live Music
Live
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" The joy of life is in the work. "
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" Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself. "
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" I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. "
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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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" I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. 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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" 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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" 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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" People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true. "
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" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "
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Internet
" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "
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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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" Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything. "
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" I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit. "
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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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