John Lydon Quotes

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• I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
• It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
• Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.
• There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
• I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.
• Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.
• For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.
• The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
• Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
• We're Sex Pistols, we ain't fake.
• I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
• You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.
• Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.
• The sounds of anger are not melodic.
• Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!
• Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.
• If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?
• I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
• I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is…
• Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged!

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