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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
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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'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?
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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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Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!
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It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.
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I'm not going to judge what I do.
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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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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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No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
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Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while.
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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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When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.
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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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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'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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I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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