Pretenders Quotes
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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.
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The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.
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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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You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.
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You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
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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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I don't wish to embarrass anyone.
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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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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.
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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 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 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 expect people to at least use some thought.
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My policy is to do the least amount to get by.
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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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Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.
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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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How much did you get for your soul?
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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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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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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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.