Chrissie Hynde famous quotes

03-28-2025

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Lying #Animal #Eating Meat
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Jealousy #Lust #Want
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Ballads
No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Propaganda
If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Flags #Ass #Communist
How much did you get for your soul?
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Soul #Your Soul
Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Jobs #Cutting #Animal
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
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Friendship #Artist #Enemy
The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Commitment #Sound #Today
Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Real #Black And White #Men
The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Effectiveness #Goal #Stopping
I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Mean #School #Knowing
I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Thinking #Trying #Sentimental
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
Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Sitting #Done #Records
I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Guitar #Play #Band
I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Dark #Rocks #Secret
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
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Song #Writing #Thinking
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Community #Patriotism
There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Looks #World
I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#America #Tea #Mind
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
Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Travel #Crazy #Too Much
I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Believe #Animal #Would Be
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Feminist #Suits #Bedtime
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Fate #Hands #Differences

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