Top 93 Chrissie Quotes
#1. Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her.
Shawn Amos
#2. 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
#3. I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.
Meredith Brooks
#4. Chrissie could make people laugh at the funeral of triplets.
Morrissey
#5. Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.
Suzi Quatro
#6. Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred.
Shawn Amos
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#11. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#12. I never go into a race expecting to win, but I do go in expecting to fight.
Chrissie Wellington
#13. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#15. There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious.
Chrissie Wellington
#16. My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!
Chrissie Fit
#17. Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
Chrissie Hynde
#18. There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.
Chrissie Hynde
#19. If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats.
Chrissie Wellington
#20. It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.
Chrissie Wellington
#21. What you continually choose to do will eventually become a habit, and when it does, it does not feel like a big effort anymore.
Chrissie Willker
#22. It doesn't matter if she's deaf, he says, My aunty Demi can listen with her eyes, and whisper with her hands.
Chrissie Perry
#23. You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
Chrissie Hynde
#24. I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. I prohibited my friends from coming with me because I didn't want to make it awkward for them when he professed his love to me.
Chrissie Fit
#25. A mouthful shard is a mouthful halved, I think. But, if he doesn't then she wouldn't worry herself on that score any longer. Because why should she do something for him, that he would not willingly do back to her? - Lady H
Chrissie Bentley
#27. I am kind of being a little selective in what I do, so it takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it in the end.
Chrissie Fit
#28. To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.
Chrissie Wellington
#29. I remember seeing 'Pitch Perfect' and loving it right away. It's hilarious!
Chrissie Fit
#30. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#32. I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
Chrissie Hynde
#33. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#34. I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.
Chrissie Hynde
#35. They were probably whispering their secrets but how would I know?
Chrissie Perry
#36. I'm super girly and like to wear skirts and dresses all the time.
Chrissie Fit
#39. 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
Chrissie Hynde
#40. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#41. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#42. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#43. I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.
Chrissie Fit
#45. We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.
Chrissie Wellington
#46. I had to make the most of it; I had to make the most of me. There could be no slack, anywhere, not in my time, not in my head, not across my skin. If there were any, the guilt wouldn't bear thinking about.
Chrissie Wellington
#47. I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
Chrissie Hynde
#48. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#50. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#51. I'm Cuban. Both my parents are Cuban. My grandparents are, too. Although I have no idea where Fit comes from.
Chrissie Fit
#52. I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
Chrissie Hynde
#53. I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 ... who can afford that?
Chrissie Hynde
#54. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#55. I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.
Chrissie Fit
#56. I sang throughout school, and it was always my passion. For whatever reason, acting took the front seat, but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.
Chrissie Fit
#57. I am so proud of my heritage and of being Latina. I would most definitely consider roles in Latin America.
Chrissie Fit
#58. It's like I am glimpsing the possibility of living in a different way. I wonder whether it would be an easier life - less choked with misunderstandings and disappointment.
Chrissie Perry
#59. Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.
Chrissie Wellington
#60. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#61. I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of the vital middle pieces.
Chrissie Perry
#62. It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.
Chrissie Wellington
#63. My first song, 'Just Becuz,' was co-written by the awesome Baby Bash.
Chrissie Fit
#64. I would do a 'Pitch Perfect 29', where the Bellas take on the Spaniards instead of the Germans. All the girls would have to learn Spanish. I'll teach them!
Chrissie Fit
#65. Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.
Chrissie Fit
#67. Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.
Chrissie Wellington
#69. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#70. Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!
Chrissie Hynde
#71. I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.
Chrissie Fit
#72. To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh and make others laugh. To read more widely. To try to be more tolerant of my weaknesses and of others, and not to be so hard on myself all the time.
Chrissie Wellington
#73. You want a man who wants to be with you above everybody. Not as a last resort.
Chrissie Manby
#74. My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.'
Chrissie Fit
#75. I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.
Chrissie Fit
#76. I think, then i pick, and then i stick. and nothing shifts me more from my view. no bad races, no bad sessions, no bad moods.
Chrissie Wellington
#77. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#79. If you don't have a flag sticking out
of your ass, you must be a communist.
Chrissie Hynde
#80. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#81. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#82. 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.
Chrissie Hynde
#83. I don't even like turkey. It's dry and weird. And so leggy I feel like I'm dining on Rhonda Burchmore
Chrissie Swan
#84. Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.
Chrissie Wellington
#85. Hope is like a butterfly that alights gently in your heart.
Chrissie Anthony
#86. There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman
Chrissie Wellington
#87. I run to feel complete, to feel alive, to feel happy, and to feel free. I run to visit beautiful places, to overcome my fears, and to remind myself - and others - that our limits may not be where we think they are.
Chrissie Wellington
#88. The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.
Chrissie Wellington
#89. I don't feel the need to have to break out of anything or prove that I'm 'edgy.' Been there, done that mentality. I'm just ready to tackle on new projects that are challenging and help me continue to grow as an artist.
Chrissie Fit
#91. I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure.
Chrissie Fit
#92. 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?
Chrissie Hynde
#93. If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl.-Martin Luther King
Chrissie Wellington
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