Debbie Harry Quotes
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In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.
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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.
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I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
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I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men are, really don't like themselves. Because personality traits are not necessarily sexual.
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The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.
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I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
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Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.
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Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
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I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
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If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?
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But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
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I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
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I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.
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I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.
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Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.
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I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
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For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.
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I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
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We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
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You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
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That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.
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That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.
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I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
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It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.