Chrissie Hynde Quotes
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I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.
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Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don't think they warrant that sort of thing. That's my private karma that I have to work out.
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I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.
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I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
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I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.
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I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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I don't wish to embarrass anyone.
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I expect people to at least use some thought.
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I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I was a girl. I would've been too shy to play with guys.
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I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
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If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.
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I don't know if I feel like an outsider or an insider; I just feel like I always did. I don't have one of those stories where I felt like no one understood me.
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When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
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Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.
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All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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How much did you get for your soul?
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Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.
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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.
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My policy is to do the least amount to get by.
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The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.