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" No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways. "
John Lydon
You
Political
Matter
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" I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude. "
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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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" I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. "
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" You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then. "
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" I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space. "
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Respect
Religion
" It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. "
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" I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. "
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" 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. "
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Country
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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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Sex
" You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. "
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Brush
Pink
" For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. "
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" I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music. "
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Mean
Genuine
" I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep. "
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Brain
Makes
People
" Live music is healthy. "
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Live Music
Live
" 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. "
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You
Walls
Trying
" If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them. "
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Autograph
Your
You
" There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it. "
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Nothing
Anyone
Dying
" I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together. "
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Together
Takes
Record
" Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. "
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Life
My Life
Busy
" I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. "
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Proud
Funny
Country
" 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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Creation
Limits
God
" 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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" I love a bit of flag-waving. "
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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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" Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left. "
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Middle
Right
Stand
" We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist. "
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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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" It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either. "
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Look
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