Best Chrissie Hynde Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. There are no real men.

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

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

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

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

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#11. 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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#12. No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.

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#13. The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.

David Fricke

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

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

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

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#18. I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.

Meredith Brooks

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

Chrissie Hynde

#20. 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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#21. Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her.

Shawn Amos

#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.

Dan Auerbach

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

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#27. I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

Imelda May

#28. 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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#29. Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.

Suzi Quatro

#30. Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred.

Shawn Amos

#31. I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

Juliette Lewis

#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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