Pretenders Quotes
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I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.
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When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and they inspire me now. But at some point, you start to try to be the best you can be and you're not copying anybody else. I'm just doing it in public, and my work needs to reflect that as well.
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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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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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I don't wish to embarrass anyone.
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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 like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.
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When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.
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I expect people to at least use some thought.
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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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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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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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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 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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Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.
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I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.
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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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How much did you get for your soul?
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Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.
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I think one of the things about being around for a while and getting to know yourself is that when you do have these positive experiences, you don't take them for granted - you identify them and you make the most of them. I don't know - it's kind of cool getting old in a lot of ways.