Sid Vicious Quotes

“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.”

“Well, you know, like, I don`t really give a fuck what the general public think.”

“I`ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.”

“The band broke up because I couldn`t bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.”

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

I`ll die before I`m 25, and when I do I`ll have lived the way I wanted to.

I`m not chic, I could never be chic.

The band broke up because I couldn`t bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

On what EMI thought the Sex Pistols were: "We weren`t the nice boys they thought we were. And, we weren`t nice boys, we were fuckin` nasty little bastards... and we still are.

I just cash in on the fact that I`m good looking, and I`ve got a nice figure and girls like me.

I got this feeling I`m gonna die before I get old. I don`t know why. I just have this feeling.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don`t let them take you ALIVE.

You can`t arrest me, I`m a rockstar.

I`ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

I`m not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

We are better than anyone, ain`t we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.

(Talking about joining the Sex Pistols) I was getting my own group together; "The Flowers of Romance", and John (Lydon) said to me - there was this big hoo-haa, and Malcolm was saying "it`s all a big secret man, you know. Come down to this pub at such-and-such", and I thought they were gonna do me over cos I didn`t turn up to one of Rotten`s parties or something - he gets touchy over things like that. And they said "do you wanna play bass for The Sex Pistols?"

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

(towards the end of the Sex Pistols career) "In the end I was the only one with any anarchy left in me."

On drugs: "I don`t want to be a junkie for the rest of my life. I don`t want to be a junkie at all."

When there are no more categorizations; when there are no more "niggers", when there are no more "whites", when there`s just "people", you know, when there`s no more "punks" when there`s no more "dirt", that is when everything is gonna be OK.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you`re got music.

We`re really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don`t they?

On John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten: "John`s just jealous because I`m the brains of the group. I`ve written all the songs, even from the beginning when I wasn`t in the group."

(Sid`s suicide note:)