A Quote by Bernard Sumner

I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

Bernard Sumner

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Bernard Sumner
English - Musician
Born: January 4, 1956

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

Gavin Rossdale

I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

Julien Temple

Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

Julien Temple

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

Iggy Pop

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

Greg Ginn

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Michael Stipe

We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'

Keren Woodward

When I say I saw shotguns and pistols in the house, I saw them. It was what I grew up around.

Terry Rozier

Rock n' roll is over, don't you get it? It lasted 25 years and now gets wiped out. The Sex Pistols were the bullet in the brain. They were the last rock and roll band.

John Lydon

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

Richard Hell

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

Fred Armisen

We're Sex Pistols, we ain't fake.

John Lydon

I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so much love. When this hearing was over, I was a changed person in regard to this issue. I felt that I understood what same-sex couples were looking for.

Wade Kach

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

Gavin Rossdale

I liked the Sex Pistols' music. I thought it was superb.