Blondie Quotes
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Being inducted seems to mean a lot to a lot of people, and by proxy that has sort of rubbed off on me. But it's not necessarily a mandate from the masses, so I don't know. We'll see.
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When you involve the community in the bank, it just moves the bank forward
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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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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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I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
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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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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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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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Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.
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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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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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I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
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I feel like I have to have a voice.
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We're going to end up selling the bank at some point
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We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.
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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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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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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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We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.
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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 think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.
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But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
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We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.