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John Lydon Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: January 31, 1956

Topics

Good Music History Past Religion

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Jim Webb

Life Great People Democracy Think

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

Joe Bob Briggs

Hate Adventure Violence You Seeing

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

Jo Stafford

Go Got Computer Near

I think that everybody's worked on shows where you feel like maybe a divide has happened between the talent and the crew. Those are the hardest jobs to do your best in, because as you're performing, you're aware that the people around you, because they haven't been afforded the respect that they deserve, they're not as invested.

Jessalyn Gilsig

Respect Best Do Your Best Talent You

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Amy Winehouse

Emotional Only Physical Needs

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

Steve Jurvetson

Space Disruption Industry Ripe

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.

Stephenie Meyer

Best Focus Creative Challenges Night

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

Molly Shannon

Life Age Losing Mom My Life Young

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

Joshua Foer

Imagination Training Competition Fun

Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it's improving the thing you already thought of six months - or six years - ago. It's the work of work.

Jason Fried

Work Thought You Improving Up Big

I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.

Josh Tillman

Love Experience Love Is Writing Been

There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician's impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark.

Christine Todd Whitman

Change Science Believe Political