Debbie Harry Quotes
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I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.
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I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.
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Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
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But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
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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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The only person I really believe in is me.
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Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.
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I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.
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I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.
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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 mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
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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.
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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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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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You have to leave room for the other person's ego.
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I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
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And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
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Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.
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I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or antigravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.
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That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.
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I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.
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And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.
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I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.
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If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today 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.
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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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I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
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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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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.
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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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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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