Quotes by Debbie Harry

• Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
• 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.
• I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
• I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
• I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
• Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
• But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
• Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.
• 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.
• We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
• 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.
• I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
• I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
• 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.
• I feel like I have to have a voice.
• I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
• I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
• I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
• 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.
• Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.
• Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
• 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.
• But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.
• 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.
• And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
• 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.
• And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the 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.
• I really, really like writing songs.