Lydia Lunch Quotes

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference. 
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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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I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name. 
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I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success. 
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I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything. 
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I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. 
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If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self. 
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Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success. 
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'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician. 
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Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before. 
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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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