Chrissie Hynde quotes

Chrissie Hynde is an American singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band The Pretenders. Her distinctive voice and influential songwriting have left a significant mark on the music industry. She continues to inspire generations with her groundbreaking work and passionate advocacy for animal rights. Here are 16 of her quotes:

Being vegetarian was to inform everything, the course of my destiny. I was baffled that the entire hippie nation hadn't become vegetarian en masse. It made no sense as eating meat went against the whole dialogue. Were the hippies just as hypocritical as the rest of them? I couldn't admit that but I understood why I loved songs like "The Loner” so much. I didn't want to be like the majority anyway. The majority were always wrong.

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Everything in nature lives according to some order so it seems unlikely that humans live outside this system, even if they try to resist their instincts. That's how we can be sure we're not animals, this refusal to abide by what we know is good for us. If an animal's instinct tells him to avoid something he has no trouble keeping a wide berth. We, on the other hand, run in the direction of danger if it offers a thrill or satisfies a curiosity.

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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 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.

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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

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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.

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A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.

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Chons, on rhythm guitar, had long black hair and blue eyes and was the first person I ever met who said she never ate meat, and when she told me that, I never ate it again either. Best thing that ever happened to me. All it took was the mere suggestion. Nobody else was vegetarian that I knew of, but I started to think of meat-eating as a very weird practice and secretly regarded meat-eaters with distaste, almost contempt. Why would anyone kill an animal if they didn't need to? I learned to live and associate with "the majority,” but never respected them. I got used to having this lack of regard for 97 percent of the population.

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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 mainstream.

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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.

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Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.

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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 bottom line.

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

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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. That suits me fine.

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Take, take, take, takin' what you don't need You'll get, get, gettin' what you don't need Stand back, take a look and take heed All the children in God's kingdom bleed See the networks of concrete and steel They've no mystery but what they reveal Tells a story of a future that's void Of the beauty and the majesty that life on Earth is meant to be...

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