Chrissie Hynde Quotes
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Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
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For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.
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My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.
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I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and bell bottoms and modified my own clothes, which is what we did during the punk period.
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I hope there is an edge to what I do.
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I bought a Stella McCartney jacket in Salt Lake City. It's nice. It looks like a pea coat. I love Stella's stuff, so wherever I go in the world, I will always go in and buy her stuff.
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I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.
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Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.
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As far as success goes, I've never really got too excited about losing or winning.
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I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.
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In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.
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I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.
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Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
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If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.
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I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.
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I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.
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Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.
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There's the meat eaters and there's us. And that's the way I look at the world.
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I don't think that Michael Jackson died. He's probably dead now, but I don't think he died when they said he did. I think he wanted out of the game anyway, so he just disappeared.
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I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.
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I don't like to think that I'm on a treadmill of album, tour, promotion and all that.
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I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
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There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.