“You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.” TryingRealSongReal LifeArrogant Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?” KnowsMenWorldTryingLittlesRealShowsRememberFilmGuyBlackWhiteSingingUnderstoodFrankTendernessBlack And WhiteShow MeReal Men Author:Chrissie Hynde
“The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindStillsRealInspirationIndividualSoundGoneMusicianDiscoveryArtisticRenegades Author:Chrissie Hynde
“I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.” RealLeftEnglandMovedExperimentsBackgroundsOhioReal FreedomColorless Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.” RealDoneKnowingMagazinesEnjoyedReal Success Author:Chrissie Hynde