John Lydon
John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon, also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the late 1970's punk band The Sex Pistols, which lasted from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is also the lead singer of post-punk band Public Image Ltd, which he founded and fronted from 1978 until 1993, and again since 2009...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth31 January 1956
rotten honest made
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
order rotten accepting
Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
dying rotten glorious
There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
rotten middle left
Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.
empty-vessels rotten sound
You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
dog lap rotten
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
people rotten blame
People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
music rotten amusement
I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
love-is noise rotten
Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
rotten negative sometimes
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
feelings rotten pistols
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
grew liked members music taken
I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.
died few four nearly took
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.
human
My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.