Latest Debbie Harry Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.

  Debbie Harry

  Buddhism, Discipline, Kind

  Source: ew.com

• I don't really memorize every little thing I have to do because then I start to think about it too much! I like to keep it in the here and now and not what's coming up.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Little Things

  Source: ew.com

• It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.

  Debbie Harry

  Father, Long, Scary

  Source: ew.com

• In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it. When it comes to rock and roll, when it comes to any kind of industry, it's not there. It's not there. So it's a battle between the two. Music, Industry.

  Debbie Harry

  Battle, Kind, Mystical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Term, Misconception

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Energy, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are all these different areas of specialization. That's it. You have to be a specialist nowadays. There's no other way. I was an artist for a long time, but I was always into being a general practitioner. I did a little of this and a little of that. And nothing got me anywhere. You have to specialize. If you don't specialize, it takes you until you're about fifty years old before anybody notices that you're doing anything at all.

  Debbie Harry

  Artist, Long, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you were a painter and a rock and roll musi­cian and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to suc­ceed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

  Debbie Harry

  Artist, Today, Equal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Differences, Talking

  Interview with Rick Moody, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 14, 2014.

• That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

  Debbie Harry

  Rocks, Forbidden

  "Alison Goldfrapp Meets Debbie Harry". Interview with Phoebe Reill, www.spin.com. April 8, 2010.

• You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

  Debbie Harry

  Ego, Rooms, Persons

  "Alison Goldfrapp Meets Debbie Harry". Interview with Phoebe Reill, www.spin.com. April 8, 2010.

• For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

  Debbie Harry

  Knowing, Forget, Performances

  "Alison Goldfrapp Meets Debbie Harry". Interview with Phoebe Reilly, www.spin.com. April 8, 2010.

• Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

  Debbie Harry

  Artist, Solo, Given

  "Alison Goldfrapp Meets Debbie Harry". Interview with Phoebe Reilly, www.spin.com. April 8, 2010.

• I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Vitamins

  "Blondie's Chris Stein and Debbie Harry: 'I Don't Think Anyone Thought Much About the Future'". Interview with Melissa Locker, time.com. September 12, 2014.

• Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

  Debbie Harry

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Should

  "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.

• In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

  Debbie Harry

  Elements, Mystical

  "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.

• I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Creating Life, Answers

  "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.

• I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

  Debbie Harry

  Mystic, Knows

  "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.

• If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?

  Debbie Harry

  Art, Successful, Long

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

• To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

  Debbie Harry

  Artist, Crafts, Succeed

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

• I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.

  Debbie Harry

  Garden, Gun, Glasses

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

• I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.

  Debbie Harry

  Writing, Enjoy, Feels

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

• I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.

  Debbie Harry

  Mean, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 9, 2007.