Lydia Lunch Quotes

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Lydia Lunch

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 2, 1959

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

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Think your own thoughts.

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'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

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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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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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Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

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I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

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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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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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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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Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

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Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'

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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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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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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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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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The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

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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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