Quotes About Sid Vicious

#1. Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious, and Jimi Hendrix, and hear somebody read my obituary from below:
NIKKI SIXX DIED TODAY ... FUCKING GOLFING

Nikki Sixx

#3. People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

Hayley Williams

#4. To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

Tyler, The Creator

#5. I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson

Rufus Wainwright

#6. Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler!

Larry Zbyszko

#7. When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names ... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll ... something that acknowledged my ambition.

Billy Idol

#8. I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

John Lydon

#9. That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

Captain Beefheart

#10. Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

Malcolm McLaren

#11. But,' I ducked the subject, 'don't heaps of artists use pseudonyms?'
'Who?'
'Um ... ' Only Cliff Richard and Sid Vicious came to mind.

David Mitchell

#12. It was sad when Sid Vicious died ... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

Dee Dee Ramone

#13. Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it
you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

Chuck Klosterman

#14. I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

Avril Lavigne

#15. 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.

Sid Vicious

#16. We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye.

Sid Vicious

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

Sid Vicious

#18. I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

Sid Vicious

#19. I'm not chic, I could never be chic.

Sid Vicious

#20. 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.

Sid Vicious

#21. You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

Sid Vicious

#22. Today everything's a conflict of interest.

Sid Vicious

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

Sid Vicious

#24. You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.

Sid Vicious

#25. I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

Sid Vicious

#26. You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

Sid Vicious

#27. We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.

Sid Vicious

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

Sid Vicious

#29. It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird.

Sid Vicious

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

Sid Vicious

#31. I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

Sid Vicious

#32. I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Sid Vicious

#33. We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

Sid Vicious