Author Profile
Debbie Harry
1945 • American • Musician
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Showing 40 quotesMusic does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.— Debbie Harry
Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.— Debbie Harry
I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.— Debbie Harry
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.— Debbie Harry
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.— Debbie Harry
I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.— Debbie Harry
Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.— Debbie Harry
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.— Debbie Harry
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.— Debbie Harry
If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy.— Debbie Harry
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.— Debbie Harry