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I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good and she's got a nice kind of... I don't think she's got a sinister or cynical vibe around her, and I don't think she's got any sort of bullshit around her.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
I never want to bore the public.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.
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You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.
Andy Rourke Pretenders -
The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.
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When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.
Andy Rourke Pretenders -
I expect people to at least use some thought.
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I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
You know, when you're 23 and you get pissed, I mean drunk, you can just go crazy and it's all right. But if you're 43 and you do it, it's like your best friend's mother who used to come in pissed and everybody was really embarrassed. It just doesn't go down well, you know, after a certain age.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
Things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me, that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one. There's other stuff out there for them to listen to.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.
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One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.
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Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.
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The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
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If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.
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It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.
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I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really good feeling for it. The sensibility there really suits me. I happened to have grown up in Manchester, a city that was a pretty cool place to be a musician. It's close to Portland in a lot of ways.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
There are no real men.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders