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" Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. "
John Lydon
Love Is
Love
Minutes
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" Pop music I have always loved best. "
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Loved
" If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. "
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Great
Music
Good Things
" 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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Ideas
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You
" 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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Genius
Political
Good
" The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records. "
John Lydon
Ideas
Stop
Day
" Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. "
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Best
Singer
World
" I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her. "
John Lydon
Kind
Find
Lady
" I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. "
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Easy
Song
Write
" I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. "
John Lydon
Liars
Lies
Somebody
" 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
" I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. "
John Lydon
Problem
Full
Internet
" Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be. "
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Words
Far
More
" You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental. "
John Lydon
Wake Up
Always
Bed
" I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. "
John Lydon
Here
Mine
Your
" Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas. "
John Lydon
Youth
Culture
Future
" I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world. "
John Lydon
World
Done
Fact
" For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. "
John Lydon
Me
Playing
Rock
" 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. "
John Lydon
More
Trying
You
" I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. "
John Lydon
Stage
Wicked
Day
" Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy. "
John Lydon
Just
Man
Heaven
" Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top. "
John Lydon
Going
Much
Wooden
" There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. "
John Lydon
Some
Stones
Just
" I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash. "
John Lydon
You
Put
Dog
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
John Lydon
Live
Color
Born
" 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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You
True
Fear
" 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. "
John Lydon
Past
Religion
Music
" Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. "
John Lydon
Love
Adore
Happens
" Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. "
John Lydon
Every
Written
Single