Chrissie Hynde

As far as success goes, I've never really got too excited about losing or winning.

— Chrissie Hynde

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.

— Chrissie Hynde

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

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I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

— Chrissie Hynde

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

— Chrissie Hynde

You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

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I'm not a complete moron like most musicians whom I've met.

— Chrissie Hynde

Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.

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I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of…

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

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I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in…

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I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player,…

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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…

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I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't…

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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…

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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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I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good…

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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…

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I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd…

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In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies…

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I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and…

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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…

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“So I listened to Jimmy and he always had the answer. That lasted another fifteen years or so, Jimmy in my ear…

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The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist.…

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When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends…

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The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio.…

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I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.

— Chrissie Hynde

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

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I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent…

— Chrissie Hynde

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

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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…

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I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.

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When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's…

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My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.

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I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

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