Patty Smyth Quotes
It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.
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When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.
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Jack Welch is someone who I have always admired. In India, Narayana Murthy is someone who I have great respect for.
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As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.
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It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.
