Chrissie Hynde Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Nice, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Pieces

  4 Copy quote

• If you don't have a flag sticking out
  of your ass, you must be a communist.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Flags, Ass, Communist

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Baseball, Children, Responsibility

  20 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Girl, Morning, Doors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

• There are no real men.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, Real Men, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

  Chrissie Hynde

  Country, Winning, Patriotism

  13 Copy quote

• A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss

  Chrissie Hynde

  Ballads

  9 Copy quote

• The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Nice, Princess, Unique

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Done, Streaks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

  Chrissie Hynde

  Weed, Boys, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Nice, Thinking, Bullshit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Stars, Rocks, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the hallmarks of what I do, if indeed it is, I still think if you have something original in what you do and you keep doing that, then you're all right.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Thinking, Hallmark, Lost

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Karma, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, Ohio, England

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

• The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Want, Might, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Fun, Party, Hollywood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Years, Silence, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

• The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

• I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Community, Patriotism

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. April 3, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Mom, Kids, Two

  7 Copy quote

• It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Luck, Tough, Complicated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

• I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Thinking, World, Bob

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

Page 2 of 3

First

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin