Richard Hell quotes

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)
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. View quote
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A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. View quote
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An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love a good play, but they're too hard to find. View quote
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I'm usually alone or asleep, at home. View quote
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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. View quote
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Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. View quote
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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. View quote
Richard Hell

Richard Hell

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Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Musician
Born: October 2, 1949
Quotes count: 10