Quotes tagged ‘Sex PIstols’

(5 total)

“Posers were people who looked like punks but they did it for fashion. And they were fools, they'd say ‘anarchy in the UK.’ What the fuck's that? Anarchy in the UK. What good is that to those of us in Utah, America? It was a Sex Pistols thing. They were British, they were allowed to go on about Anarc…”

— James Merendino, Stevo, Matthew Lillard, imdb.com

“As a child I had trained as a cantor, who leads the Jewish congregation in prayer, so I’d had quite a bit of vocal training. And that’s still with me to this day. I first got involved in music when I was at a school in LA, a punk rock band doing covers of Ramones and Sex Pistols and a couple of orig…”

— David Draiman, loudersound.com

“Harold: I guess you'd prefer we listen to that punk rock music I've been reading about. You know those Sex Pistols? They spit on their audience! Yep, that's what I wanna do. Spend my hard earned money to be spit on. Now that's entertainment...Elvis didn't expectorate on his fans. Sam: No. But he die…”

— Judd Apatow, J. Elvis Weinstein, Harold Weir, Joe Flaherty, imdb.com

“I really do think the crown and glory of the Sex Pistols is that we've always managed to disappoint on big occasions. When the chips were down, we never came through. We were so bad, it was gloriously awful, as it should have been.”

— John Lydon, latimesblogs.latimes.com

“I hate death, it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. But my dad still talks to me. In my sleep.”

— John Lydon, telegraph.co.uk