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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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Christine Kerr
Christine Elaine Hynde
Christine Ellen Hynde
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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 just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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I'm not going to judge what I do.
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It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.
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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 always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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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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Let's face it, we do have this mating instinct that just won't quit, you know? Just when you think it's safe to come out, there it is again. You're driving down the street, and it's the last thing on your mind, and all of a sudden you're like, Oh, he looks nice, and you're up a lamppost.
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If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
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I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good and she's got a nice kind of... I don't think she's got a sinister or cynical vibe around her, and I don't think she's got any sort of bullshit around her.
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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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I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.
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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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