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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
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Chrissie Hynde
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 7
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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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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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I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.
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I'm not going to judge what I do.
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I don't wish to embarrass anyone.
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I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.
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I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.
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I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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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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I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.
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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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I hope there is an edge to what I do.
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Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don't think they warrant that sort of thing. That's my private karma that I have to work out.
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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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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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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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I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
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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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