Pretenders Quotes
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I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.
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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.
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
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Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don't think they warrant that sort of thing. That's my private karma that I have to work out.
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When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.
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I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.
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I don't wish to embarrass anyone.
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I expect people to at least use some thought.
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I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I was a girl. I would've been too shy to play with guys.
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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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I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
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I don't know if I feel like an outsider or an insider; I just feel like I always did. I don't have one of those stories where I felt like no one understood me.
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All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
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Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.
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I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.
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How much did you get for your soul?
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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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If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.
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Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.
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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.