Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Sid Vicious

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Sid Vicious.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Sid Vicious

John Simon Ritchie widely known as Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Despite dying in 1979 at age 21, he remains an icon of the punk subculture; one of his friends noted that he embodied "everything in punk that was dark, decadent and nihilistic."

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?
I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.
I had no money to buy clothes, and people would run away when I walked down the street. It was a right laugh. — © Sid Vicious
I had no money to buy clothes, and people would run away when I walked down the street. It was a right laugh.
I write differently from the way Glen used to. I haven't written very much lately, I mean, since I've been in the group, but I'm starting to now more. And just the fact that I'm there instead of Glen means that the others do everything differently. Cos they have to adapt it to, like, fit in with me, do you know what I mean?
I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
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.
Don't believe everything you read in the press. If somebody starts with me, I try to mess them up, but I don't look for trouble.
Nancy was a very special person, too beautiful for this world. I feel so privileged to have loved her and been loved by her.
We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?
I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
I'm not chic, I could never be chic.
I don't like any sort of film. I hate films.
I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.
I don't think we'll ever be millionaires. I don't really think about the future.
In the end, I was the only one with any anarchy left in me.
Films are about lies. They're about making things look glamorous.
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.
I didn't know how to dance, so I just jumped up and down and bashed people. Then everybody else started doin' it, but they didn't get it right, so I quit.
You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.
This whole thing has become a pantomime.
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music. — © Sid Vicious
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.
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.
I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird.
You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.
Today everything's a conflict of interest.
Well, you know, like, I don`t really give a f**k what the general public think.
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