Chrissie Hynde QUOTES

1 " To address another human was one thing, but a singing voice was capable of so much more. Romance made you weak and love was about suffering. I wanted what the jazz musicians were looking for: the supreme. I wanted my voice to take life by the throat and rattle it until it made sense. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

2 " Everybody had to own and maintain a car. It was the biggest con in the Land of the Free. Well, along with the tobacco and alcohol industries, which also pumped out poison and had the nation in their grip. Pharmaceuticals and firearms would join the party in due course. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

3 " I did it because the offer of a record contract came along and it seemed like it might be more fun than being a waitress. Now, I'm not so sure. "

― Chrissie Hynde

4 " Confidence is usually a bluff – if you’re lucky you might have it, but frankly nobody will know the difference "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

5 " It's always sad when you start to hate what you love. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

6 " …always carry an empty coke bottle, one in each hand, when going out alone at night. Nobody wants to get smashed in the head with a bottle. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

7 " I was constantly imagining a couple of comic or sci-fi writers at the end of the fifties, stoned on weed and speed, trying to outdo each other with outrageous scenarios of the Beat world of the future. It was called England. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

8 " After writing a song, there’s first a feeling of elation followed by the sinking feeling that it will never happen again, and you go back to thinking that you can't do it. It creates an ongoing feeling of inadequacy. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

9 " Smoking while vacuuming makes vacuuming better but smoking while sitting on the couch makes vacuuming harder. "

― Chrissie Hynde

10 " Dave knocked on the door. “Iggy is in the bar,” he said. I drew my eyes back on and, as nonchalantly as I could manage, slipped down to the bar. “Hey! This is great,” he said, looking like Alfred E. Neuman and shaking my hand. He seemed as happy to meet me as I was him, as he introduced me to his girlfriend, Esther. In accordance with everybody else who’d met him, I found out that you either got Jim Osterberg, the straight-A Midwestern bookworm, or Iggy Pop, the drug-crazed, platinum-blond lunatic. The guy in the bar that night was Jim Osterberg. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

11 " Before Janis Joplin even hit the stage I was remarking to my friends how incredible the light show was. “Chris, the show hasn’t started yet,” they replied. But on three different tabs of acid, guess what, the show HAD started. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

12 " (May I point out how much I loathe the distinctions of black, gay or anything that implies anything.) I wanted to find that colorless Island that Charlie Mingus talked about. Like Lee Morgan, I was in search of a new land. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

13 " I held my plastic “Jesus Saves” cross near a lightbulb before going to bed so it would glow in the dark. I didn’t think I was religious and didn’t think about whether I believed or not. Having said that, I could never understand how anyone with a modicum of rebelliousness or sense of fair play couldn’t appreciate He who hung with lowlifes and healed the sick. I especially liked the story about Him driving those merchants out of the temple. Even Jesus could lose it if pressed. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

14 " So I listened to Jimmy and he always had the answer. That lasted another fifteen years or so, Jimmy in my ear telling me what to do, and then slowly, he seemed to fade away. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

15 " Well, 'any experience is better than no experience;, was my motto. "

― Chrissie Hynde

16 " When you’re alone and don’t know anybody it’s easy to meet people. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

17 " The one thing I hated about drugs was the assholes you had to hang out with to get them. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

18 " It’s amazing how much can happen in a few weeks on the road. This was going to become a habit to me; seeing new places would become like a drug. Better than drugs. And there was a whole world still to discover. I was as optimistic as a junkie in a poppy field. "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

19 " I can't not be alive "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

20 " It's always sad when you start to hate what you love "

― Chrissie Hynde , Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

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