Quotes by Lydia Lunch - Page 1

Think your own thoughts.
Lydia Lunch / Singer
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I'm like a one-woman protest machine.
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Machines
One Woman
Protest
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Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.
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Involved
Song
Love Politics Always
Love Songs
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I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!
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Optimistic
Ends
Knows
Lunch
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I watch the news. It fuels my rage; it informs my work.
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Fuels
Informs
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I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.
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Bigs
Differences
Feminist
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You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.
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Elsewhere
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I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.
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Humanist
I Am Big Am
Big Difference
Difference
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There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?
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Hate
Hate You
World
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Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.
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Musician
Titles
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'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.
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Musician
Title
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I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.
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Encouragement
Gluttony
Lunch
Thinking
Important Think I Think
Formats
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The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.
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Imperial
Rests
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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
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Emphasize
Litter
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The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.
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Affliction
Insanity
Needs
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Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'
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Cancer
Favourite
Books
Capricorn
Henry
Miller
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I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.
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Found
Humiliated
Lunch
Would Be
Commercial
Commercial Success
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Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.
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Charm
Facts
Lunch
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People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?
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Me People Always
Who Am I
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Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before.
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Charm
Unrelated
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Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
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Bank Accounts
Be Considerate
Considerate
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Consider
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Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.
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Beauty
Fashion Industry
Industry
Alternative
Concept
Represent
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I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
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Feminism
Liberating
Names
People
Thinking
People Name See
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I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.
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Being Mad
Busy
Lunch
Mad
Sympathetic
Work Always Person
Across
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Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
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Can't Change
Miserable
Wells
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Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
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Just One
Miserable
Powerless
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The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
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The Problem With
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The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.
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Beautiful
Female
Foolhardy
Format
Function
Lunch
Suits
Image
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I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.
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Beaten
Genocide
Horrible
Stubborn
Thinking
Antagonistic
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I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.
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Achieve
Lunch
Needs
Pleasure
Pursue
Satisfaction
Satisfies
Seeker
Specific
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I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.
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Hilarious
Comedian
Deny
Ethos
Lunch
Relief
Thinking
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I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.
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Destruction
Theme
Thrive
Steal
Survive
To Survive
We Cannot
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I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.
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Truth Is
Henry
Miller
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If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.
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Quality
Dose
People
Pleasure
Quality Time
Self
Thinking
Time Quality Quality Time
Understand
How Much
Themselves
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The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the nightmare and horror that I witness; I just digest it and spew it back, with venom.
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Insult
Nightmare
Venom
Witness
Digest
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The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.
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Desire
Determined
Greed
Insatiable
Limitless
Most Powerful
Powerful
American Way
Life Death Way
Richest
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I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.
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Performers
Inflict
Intensely
Lumped
Separated
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Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
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Candy
Daily Life
Eye
Lunch
Our Time
Spending
Stolen
Thinking
Life Time Thinking
Life Time Daily
Conspires
Daily
Rent
So Much Time
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I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
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Backdrop
Feeding
Lunch
People
Singing
Thinking
Vision
Work Music Vision
Prefer
Fantasies
Instrumental
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To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.
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Ignored
Waste
According
Instrument
Solving
Waste Time
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I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.
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Happiness
Imbalance
Satisfaction
Silly
Strife
Succeed
Life Best Believe
Life Happiness Best
Living
Chemical
Fullest
Seek
Silly Thing
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Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.
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Aggressive
Angry
Blunt
Icons
Stubborn
Male
Chronically
Encouraged
Forthright
Male Artists
Painted
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If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.
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Inspirational
Insanity
Mysterious
Punk
Wave
Alike
Collective
Sonic
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Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.
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Embrace
Honesty
Hysteria
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My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even self-oppression. I consider that the main job of the art that I do- to rattle the cage, wake people up, wake myself up, confront all that would conspire to keep us down.
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Art
Jobs
Self
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Women are denied masturbation even more severely than men and that's another method of control-they're not taught to please themselves.... Most women-it takes them a while to warm up to the "situation" but once they get into it, I'm sure they're going to get just as hooked as-well, everyone I know is!
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Men
Masturbation
Taught
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Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
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Barcelona
Died
Ghetto
Solo
Spain
Towns
Utopia
Buildings
Lead
Images
Roads
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I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.
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Glasses
Mirrors
Reflection
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I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.
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Healing
Hurt
Sex
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