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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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Singer-Songwriter
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Akron
Ohio
Christine Kerr
Christine Elaine Hynde
Christine Ellen Hynde
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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 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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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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You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
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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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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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Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
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Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.
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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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