Top 33 Chrissie Hynde Quotes

#1. Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

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#2. The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.

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#3. I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

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#4. Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

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#5. What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

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#6. I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 ... who can afford that?

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#7. Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

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#8. I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

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#9. Everybody had to own and maintain a car. It was the biggest con in the Land of the Free. Well, along with the tobacco and alcohol industries, which also pumped out poison and had the nation in their grip. Pharmaceuticals and firearms would join the party in due course.

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#10. Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

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#11. If you don't have a flag sticking out
of your ass, you must be a communist.

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#12. Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

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#13. There are no real men.

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#14. You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

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#15. The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

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#16. 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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#17. Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

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#18. There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.

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#19. One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

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#20. Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.

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#21. In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

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#22. No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.

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#23. I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

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#24. I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

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#25. How much did you get for your soul?

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#26. A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.

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#27. 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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#28. When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

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#29. The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals

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#30. I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

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#31. 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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#32. I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

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#33. I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

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