Blondie Quotes
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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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Debbie was accused of being too overtly sexual and now the standards are different. Times have changed.
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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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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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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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When you involve the community in the bank, it just moves the bank forward
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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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Our fans come from a wide age group. At our shows, the kids are down in the front and the bald guys are in the back. They're all interested and curious.
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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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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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Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.
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We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.
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We're going to end up selling the bank at some point
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We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.
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We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.
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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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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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It's a continuation. It feels like we were in the studio for 16 years. It was bottled up and this album was an outpouring.
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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 guess people assume I have some sort of totally magical life, but I'm a working musician, fortunately. I've worked on my craft, and I'm very fortunate I've been able to survive in a very competitive industry and enjoy my success. It's not easy.
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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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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.
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I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
