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I hope there is an edge to what I do.

Chrissie Hynde

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Chrissie Hynde
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 7
Autobiographer
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Restaurateur
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Akron
Ohio
Christine Kerr
Christine Elaine Hynde
Christine Ellen Hynde
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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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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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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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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 just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
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No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
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Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.
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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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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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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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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 just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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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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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 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.
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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 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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