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Debbie Harry
July 1, 1945 -
Nationality: American
Category: Musician
Subcategory: American Musician

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

   

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 do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

   

I feel like I have to have a voice.

   

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

   

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.

   

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

   

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.

   

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

   

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.

   

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

   

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

   

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.

   

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

   

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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