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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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I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.
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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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If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.
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There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.
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I don't wish to embarrass anyone.
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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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There are no real men.
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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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I'm not going to judge what I do.
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Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.
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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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It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.
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I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
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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'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 think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.
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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'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?
Chrissie Hynde
There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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