Debbie Harry Quotes
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The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.
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If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
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We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
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I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.
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Being hot never hurts!
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Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
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And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.
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To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
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I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.
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But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.
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The only person I really believe in is me.
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And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
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I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
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And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
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Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
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I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.
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Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
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But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
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I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
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I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
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I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or antigravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.
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You have to leave room for the other person's ego.
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I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.
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I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.