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John Lydon
English
Musician
Born:
Jan 31
,
1956
Good
Love
Me
Music
People
You
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I love a bit of flag-waving.
John Lydon
Love
Bit
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
John Lydon
Love
Music
Good
Song
Easy
Write
Pop
Pop Music
Pop Song
I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
John Lydon
Best
You
Single
Party
Thank You
Worlds
Member
Could
Never
Thank
Want
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.
John Lydon
You
Walls
Other
See
Some
Superstars
Glaring
Know
Houses
Occupied
Been
Trying
Hanging
Just
Disgusted
Really
Toilet
Platinum
Things
If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
John Lydon
You
Opportunity
Go Away
Pay
Pay Attention
Say
Tell
Someone
Something
Attention
Least
Go
Up
Want
Them
Then
Away
Shut
Shut Up
If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.
John Lydon
You
Better
Meet
Way
Out
Shape
Better Shape
Feel
Sort
Maker
Might
Then
Your
Why
Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
John Lydon
Love
Music
Whatever
Every
Analog
Adore
Simply
Making
Literally
Happens
Aspect
Electronic
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
John Lydon
Life
Art
Humanity
Imitation
Some
Should
I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.
John Lydon
Me
Memory
Few
Young
Sickly
Took
Back
Months
Attack
Life-Threatening
Had
Put
Boy
Years
Very
Get
Died
Nearly
Four
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
John Lydon
Love
Treat
Sometimes
Wife
Humor
Too
Back
Extreme
Way
Right-Wing
Entire
Delicious
Jon
Jon Stewart
He
Highly
Well
Because
Does
Persona
American
Irony
Being
Which
Little
Convinced
Bringing
Amusing
U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
John Lydon
Life
Experience
Band
Life Experience
No Life
Never
Songs
Existed
Any
Should
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
John Lydon
Record
Record Companies
Had
Fell
Nonsense
Contract
Quite
Stop
Apart
Companies
Live music is healthy.
John Lydon
Music
Healthy
Live
Live Music
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
John Lydon
Eyes
Ears
Musician
Give
Rather
Unusual
Sound
Up
Than
Which
Might
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
Music
Good
Religion
History
You
Bible
First
Past
Move On
Once
Kind
Tortuous
Written
Stuff
Like
Learn
Escape
Move
The History Of
Basis
Need
I've always despised the hippies.
John Lydon
Despised
Always
Hippies
Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
John Lydon
Best
World
Face
Singer
Anything
Gonna
Ever
Books are like my one and only joy.
John Lydon
Joy
Books
Only
Like
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
John Lydon
Music
Will
Own
Possible
Tempted
My Own
Devices
Most
Make
Left
I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.
John Lydon
Love
Me
Thoughts
Conversation
Happy
Mind
Interviews
Philosophies
Kind
Sharing
Stuff
Like
Makes
Always
Doing
Different
Either
Them
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
John Lydon
Me
You
Human Being
Thinking
Assumptions
Approach
Way
Come
Doing
Bunch
Any
Human
Anybody
Being
Planet
Interests
Whole
Now
When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
John Lydon
Picture
Faster
Write
Always
Brain
Than
Trying
Hands
Moves
Things
Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
John Lydon
True
Concept
Very
American
Upright
Being
Themselves
Forthright
Hard
Honest
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
Hair
Live
Ginger
Physical
Born
Color
Like
Look
Because
Without
Always
Surfing
Real
Go
Blond
Effort
Mouse
Any
Want
Which
Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.
John Lydon
Unhappy
Would
Would-Be
Never-Ending
Over
Look
Very
Achieved
Wanted
Process
Again
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.
John Lydon
Walk
Young
Out
Would
Feature
Never
Songs
Enamoured
Off
Celebrities
Person
Then
Certain
Who
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