Sex Pistols Quotes

• Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

  John Lydon

  Feelings, Rotten, Pistols

  1978 Having walked offstage at the WinterlandBallroomduring The Sex Pistols tour of the US,14 Jan.

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• American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

  Sid Vicious

  Pistols, Boring, Audience

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• Rock n' roll is over, don't you get it? It lasted 25 years and now gets wiped out. The Sex Pistols were the bullet in the brain. They were the last rock and roll band.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Rocks, Years

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• Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

  Julien Temple

  Sex, Pistols, Able

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2000.

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• I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

  Damien Hirst

  Song, Sex, Medicine

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• No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people.

  Julien Temple

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Thinking, Challenges

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• We're Sex Pistols, we ain't fake.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Fake, Pistols

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• I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Running, Sex, Hero

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• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Sex, Successful, Pistols

  "Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Thinking, Pistols

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• When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

  Iggy Pop

  Sex, People, Trying

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

  Greg Ginn

  Fashion, Sex, Media

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• People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Sex, People

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• I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Sex, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.

  Boy George

  Sex, Teenager, Rocks

  "Karma is good to chameleon Boy George". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

  Bruno Mars

  Beach, Sex, Queens

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I always felt there was kind of a millennial aspect to The Sex Pistols.

  Julien Temple

  Sex, Millennials, Pistols

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols

  David Byrne

  Sex, Different, Television

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• I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

  Julien Temple

  Jobs, Sex, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No one ever sounded like The Slits or looked like them, no matter how many people tried it, or were influenced by it. It's impossible. You can't recreate that. There will never be another Sex Pistols. There will never be another Clash.

  Ari Up

  Sex, People, Pistols

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It seems like the powers that be are really trying to separate everything and really divide the genres and divide the trends. If you're metal and you don't sound like Slayer would sound now, then you're not metal. If you're punk rock and you don't sound like and preach about what The Sex Pistols would have preached about back in the day, then you're not really punk rock.

  Cristian Machado

  Sex, Rocks, Trying

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Sex, School, Dark

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• There was a thing during those times in the '80s where it was like Sex Pistols then Nirvana and nothing in between.

  Mike Watt

  Sex, Pistols, 80s

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

  Boy George

  Sex, Idols, Clubs

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