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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
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Composer
Guitarist
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Restaurateur
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Singer-Songwriter
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Akron
Ohio
Christine Kerr
Christine Elaine Hynde
Christine Ellen Hynde
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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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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 just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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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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I'm not going to judge what I do.
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There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.
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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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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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Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.
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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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If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.
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I just want to be as regular, and get by with doing the least amount of publicity, but still look really cool, you know? And get a bit of respect.
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I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?
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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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You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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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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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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