Debbie Harry Quotes & Sayings

#1. I really, really like writing songs.

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#2. I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

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#3. 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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#4. I could be a housewife ... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

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#5. I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

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#6. We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

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#7. 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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#8. New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.

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#9. 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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#10. How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

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#11. 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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#12. For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

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#13. That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.

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#14. Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

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#15. 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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#16. I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

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#20. And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

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#21. I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

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#22. Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

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#23. I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

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#27. 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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#28. I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.

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#29. Being hot never hurts!

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#30. And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

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#31. Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

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#32. 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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#33. 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.

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#34. That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

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#35. 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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#36. I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

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#37. Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

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#38. I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

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#39. It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

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#40. 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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#41. You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

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#42. I feel like I have to have a voice.

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#43. I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

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#44. The only person I really believe in is me.

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#45. And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.

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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

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#49. I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.

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#50. I guess people assume I have some sort of totally magical life, but I'm a working musician, fortunately. I've worked on my craft, and I'm very fortunate I've been able to survive in a very competitive industry and enjoy my success. It's not easy.

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#51. The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.

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