Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish,… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The way the music industry is now geared, it's fewer accolades towards new and upcoming acts. New bands offer bright creativity. It's… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,… — John Lydon Copy Share
I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it. — John Lydon Copy Share
All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and… — John Lydon Copy Share
Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! — John Lydon Copy Share
I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that. — John Lydon Copy Share
I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty… — John Lydon Copy Share
A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't… — John Lydon Copy Share
Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point and purpose… — John Lydon Copy Share
For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known… — John Lydon Copy Share
I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not… — John Lydon Copy Share
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. — John Lydon Copy Share
