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10 quotes by Richard Hell

Richard Hell (born Richard Lester Meyers) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer. Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has credited Hell as a source of inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude, as well as the safety-pin and...
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It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of... →

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An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

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Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made... →

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A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

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Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

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I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything... →

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It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what... →

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When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you... →

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I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

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I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

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