Blondie Quotes
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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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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned. They should have a little bit of honor. This is supposed to be rock 'n' roll. This is supposed to be friendly. This is like going through the trenches together.
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I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
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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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We're going to end up selling the bank at some point
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We want to play. We weren't part of it.
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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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If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy.
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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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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 really, really like writing songs.
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When you sell stock to the customers, they breed business
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When you involve the community in the bank, it just moves the bank forward
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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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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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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned.
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We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.
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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.
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We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.
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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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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.
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We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.