Ari Up Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.”
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“We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn't happen until the early '90s. We couldn't get together before then, because the legend hadn't been built yet. In the 2000s, we've become bigger than life in that way. It's become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the '90s.”
-- Ari UpSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.”
-- Ari UpSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“No one ever sounded like The Slits or looked like them, no matter how many people tried it, or were influenced by it. It's impossible. You can't recreate that. There will never be another Sex Pistols. There will never be another Clash.”
-- Ari UpSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I would have really liked to have had The Slits out in the '90s again, to do tours and albums, because I think the '90s was a brilliant decade for music.”
-- Ari UpSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“The 1980s were such a shock for me. I was really young, obviously, and The Slits were just mutilated. We were totally sabotaged to such a point that we were put out in exile. So that was the best way for me to spend the '80s: in the jungle, naked. Maybe there are more options now, and there's more girl groups. The only thing good that came out of the '80s was breakdancing.”
-- Ari UpSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I don't think we're totally responsible. But you know, all the bands said it, that we did. Even Courtney Love said that. Anyway, Courtney called her band Hole, get it? Slits? Hole? So it's pretty clear we were an influence on all of them, but I'm not really sure how far it goes. I was on a different planet at the time.”
-- Ari UpSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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“What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.”
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“Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.”
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