John Quotes

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

Pop music I have always loved best.

The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

I don't listen to music. I hate music.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.

Books are like my one and only joy.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

Anybody who says, "Look, John, I'm a politician. Don't believe a word I say," is a friend of mine.

I come from the school of do it yourself mate. Unfortunately over the years there's been quite a few of, "Can you do it for us Johnny, so we can grab all your glory?".

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.

I will always pay respect and homage to my early years, because that's what gave me the initial push to go on and do what it is I do. That's where I learned the love and respect for music.

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.

Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.

Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!

I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. But I can sit and watch an ant run up and down the floor for hours. I use a magnifying glass to look at the beautiful shape of the thing.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.

I like America's diversity and its landscapes.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

A new broome sweepeth cleane.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.