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Debbie Harry
American
Musician
About the author
Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Music
#Content
I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Now
#Love
#Conservative
#Community
#Majority
#Rights
#Politics
#Religious
#Minority
I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Influence
I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Tradition
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Want
#Culture
#Experience
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Music
#Speech
But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Want
#Writer
Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Art
#Music
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#People
#Language
#Music
We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Time
#Problems
#Business
I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#New year
I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Work
#New year
I feel like I have to have a voice.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Voice
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Mind
#Name
I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Effect
#Music
I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Work
#New year
I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Day
You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Help
#Devil
But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Will
#World
#Computers
I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Music
#Girls
And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#New year
And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Living
And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#World
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Right
#Being
#Sense
#Wrong
#Judgment
#Treatment
#Humanity
I really, really like writing songs.
Debbie Harry,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Writing