Chrissie Hynde Quotes

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.

Chrissie Hynde Pretenders

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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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• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

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• I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.

  

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• I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.

  

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• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

  

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• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

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• Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

  

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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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• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

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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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• You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

  

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• In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

  

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• I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

  

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• Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

  

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• Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

  

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• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!

  

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• My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

  

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• The people who come to watch us play, who love the team and regard it as part of their lives, would never appreciate Liverpool having a huge balance in the bank. They want every asset we possess to be wearing a red shirt.

  

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• The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

  

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• I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories – One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online.

  

  Nate Berkus
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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.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Rock
  • Clubs
  • Mates