Richard Hell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.
-- Richard Hell

#Character #Kind #Punk
When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.
-- Richard Hell

#Thinking #Interesting #Age
Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.
-- Richard Hell

#Sex #Perfect #Pistols
It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.
-- Richard Hell

#Appreciation #Art #Attitude
It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.
-- Richard Hell

#Past #Artist #Media
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
-- Richard Hell

#Years #Realizing #Poetry Is
I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.
-- Richard Hell

#Play
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
-- Richard Hell

#Stories #Ends #Born
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
-- Richard Hell

#Giving #Thread #Incidents
I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.
-- Richard Hell

#Home
I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own â€“ for instance, the sun is really twice its size.
-- Richard Hell

#Class #Sun #Size
I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.
-- Richard Hell

#War #Media #Vietnam
Things always change, and New York teaches you that.
-- Richard Hell

#New York #Teach
I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.
-- Richard Hell

#Killing #Wanted
I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.
-- Richard Hell

#Fall #Rain #Feet
You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.
-- Richard Hell

#Real #Focus #Relief
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.
-- Richard Hell

#Mind #Facts #Losing
I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.
-- Richard Hell

#Spiritual #Smart #Thinking

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