American - Musician | June 2, 1959 -
Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.
Lydia Lunch
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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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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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You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.
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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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