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It's nice. You meet some of your neighbors while you're there.
Chris Stein Blondie -
If you were a painter and a rock and roll musiĀcian and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to sucĀceed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
Debbie Harry Blondie
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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.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
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.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Being hot never hurts!
Debbie Harry Blondie -
A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
Chris Stein Blondie
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And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
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.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.
Chris Stein Blondie -
The only person I really believe in is me.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.
Debbie Harry Blondie
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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.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
Chris Stein Blondie -
And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
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.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
Debbie Harry Blondie
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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.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
Debbie Harry Blondie