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I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or antigravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.
Debbie Harry Blondie
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You have to leave room for the other person's ego.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
We didn't set out to imitate or parody ourselves.
Clem Burke Blondie -
In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society (“collectivity”) to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.
Gary Lachman Blondie -
We have more acceptance and credibility from being away for so long. Our songs have a life of their own. It's like having a career without having a career.
Clem Burke Blondie
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We're pushing about $190 million in assets (statewide).
Nigel Harrison Blondie -
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.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.
Gary Lachman Blondie -
We didn't want a hybrid of the old stuff. The old records were very dense musically. Now there's a trend towards minimalist sound. That's the main thing.
Chris Stein Blondie -
It feels like a continuation of the Blondie sound. It's very eclectic, ... Our influences are not all musical. We're influenced by art, culture, camp values and irony. That's what puts us away from the rest of the pack.
Clem Burke Blondie -
Most of the bands that have regrouped or reformed didn't ring true for me. It smacks of cashing in. We wanted to become a band again and make a new record. It's unfair to fans and musicians to just release reissues.
Chris Stein Blondie
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I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Suddenly, with the advent of women in the music business, they began to realize Debbie's importance.
Clem Burke Blondie -
In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.
Chris Stein Blondie -
In both the mystical and the paranormal there seems to be a kind of direct knowing, not mediated by the usual routines of the intellect. In both a kind of shift of consciousness occurs, a kind of turning inward that reveals another world.
Gary Lachman Blondie -
The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.
Chris Stein Blondie -
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.
Debbie Harry Blondie
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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.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
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.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Debbie was accused of being too overtly sexual and now the standards are different. Times have changed.
Chris Stein Blondie -
It means a lot to everybody outside of the business, so much that it's come to mean more to us. It's sort of an insider music thing, not really a mandate of the people. But it's nice to be in there with all of my heroes.
Chris Stein Blondie