Debbie Harry quotes
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“I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.”
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“I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.”
-- Debbie HarrySource : "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.
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“I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.”
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“I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.”
-- Debbie HarrySource : "Blondie's Chris Stein and Debbie Harry: 'I Don't Think Anyone Thought Much About the Future'". Interview with Melissa Locker, time.com. September 12, 2014.
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“I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.”
-- Debbie HarrySource : Details, Volume 25, Issues 8-10, 2007.
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“I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.”
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“The only person I really believe in is me.”
-- Debbie HarrySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.”
-- Debbie HarrySource : "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.
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“Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.”
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“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?”
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“I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.”
-- Debbie HarrySource : "Nothing is Real But the Girl". Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.
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“I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.”
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“We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.”
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“I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.”
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“But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.”
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“Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.”
-- Debbie HarrySource : "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.
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“You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.”
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“In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.”
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“I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.”
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“I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.”
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“We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.”
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“If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy.”
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“I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it...Something that's written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.”
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“Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.”
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“I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men are, really don't like themselves. Because personality traits are not necessarily sexual.”
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“I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.”
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“I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.”
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“Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.”
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“How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.”
-- Debbie HarrySource : "Debbie Harry: 'I'm more anonymous than Gaga or Madonna. I'm more of a cult figure'". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.
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“And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.”
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“And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.”
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“But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.”
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“The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.”
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“Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.”
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“That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.”
-- Debbie HarrySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby.”
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“I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.”
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“I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.”
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“I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.”
-- Debbie Harry
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