New York Dolls Quotes

#1. The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.

Tommy Lee

#2. For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.

Nikki Sixx

#3. The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were just another band in what was called the New York scene.

Todd Rundgren

#4. I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.

Buzz Osborne

#5. My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

Morrissey

#6. Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.

Alexandra Bracken

#7. ...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous.

Caitlin Doughty

#8. Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Howard Zinn

#9. One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

Stephen Kinzer

#10. I have experience near-death many times but a divine power saved me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. [On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.

Margaret Case Harriman

#12. One should not run on a new road.

Amelia Barr

#13. You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

Liev Schreiber

#14. It's practically common sense that men should have unrealistic expectations of women's looks, and yet here we see it's just not true.

Christian Rudder

#15. History takes time. History makes memory.

Gertrude Stein