Blondie Quotes
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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.
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When you involve the community in the bank, it just moves the bank forward
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I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
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Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.
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I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.
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When you sell stock to the customers, they breed business
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We're going to end up selling the bank at some point
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If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?
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I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
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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.
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I feel like I have to have a voice.
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I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
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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.
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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.
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We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
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I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
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Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
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We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.
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It seemed to mean so much to other people, and it sort of rubbed off on me.
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I really, really like writing songs.
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You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
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We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.
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I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.
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The outcome, if successful, in both alchemy and individuation is a union of opposites—the coniunctionis or transcendent function—leading to alchemical gold, the philosopher’s stone, the elixir of life, or, in Jungian terms, the Self.