Lydia Lunch Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Lydia Lunch quotes and sayings page 4 (65 year old musician). These are the last 9 out of 39 quotes we have for her.
“The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.”
“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.”
“Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'”
“You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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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