Debbie Harry Quotes

• 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

• 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.

  Debbie Harry

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

  Debbie Harry

• 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.

  Debbie Harry

• Something’s that written out is okay, but it’s not always a clear indication of what a person means.

  Debbie Harry

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

  Debbie Harry

• Lately I’ve been believing that music predates speech.

  Debbie Harry

• I’ve had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year’s Eve.

  Debbie Harry

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

  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

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

  Debbie Harry

• I really, really like writing songs.

  Debbie Harry

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

  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

• I have a lot of regrets, but I’m not going to think of them as regrets

  Debbie Harry

• 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.

  Debbie Harry

• I feel like I have to have a voice.

  Debbie Harry

• I don’t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it’s got my name on it.

  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

• I always work on New Year’s Eve, no matter what.

  Debbie Harry

Debbie Harry (29)

Birth:	1st July, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Lyricist, Singer

About

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry was born in Miami, Florida. She is an American singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and actress, best known as the lead singer of the new wave and punk rock band Blondie. Harry has released five solo albums. She began her solo career in 1981 with KooKoo. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she recorded and performed with The Jazz Passengers. Her acting career spans over thirty film roles and numerous television appearances. She graduated from Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, with an Associate of Arts degree in 1965.

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