Richard Hell Quotes

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• Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

  Richard Hell

  New York, Teach

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• The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

  Richard Hell

  Girl, Rocks, Purpose

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• Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

  Richard Hell

  Writing, Interesting, Consciousness

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

  Richard Hell

  Mind, Facts, Losing

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• If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.

  Richard Hell

  Song, Reading, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Richard Hell

  Giving, Thread, Incidents

  "Q&A: Richard Hell Has Gone to Heaven". Interview with Scott Martelle, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

  Richard Hell

  Home

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• I believe in people treating each other with respect.

  Richard Hell

  Believe, People, I Believe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all the time. And sometimes it really pisses me off because I hate it when they're just jerking my chain and it's just like completely manipulative.

  Richard Hell

  Hate, Thinking, Might

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

  Richard Hell

  Rain, Fall, Feet

  Richard Hell (1997). “Go Now”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

  Richard Hell

  Character, Kind, Punk

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• I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.

  Richard Hell

  Spiritual, Smart, Thinking

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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 you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

  Richard Hell

  Past, Artist, Media

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• I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

  Richard Hell

  Tears, Susceptible

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

  Richard Hell

  Book, Moments, Thread

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

  Richard Hell

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.

  Richard Hell

  New York, Way, Lasts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I do everything halfway,
  a thing of which adults disapprove,
  but things done halfway
  are deceptive, and in a class of
  their own – for instance,
  the sun is really twice its size.

  Richard Hell

  Class, Adults, Done

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• I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

  Richard Hell

  Writing, Psychology, Firsts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

  Richard Hell

  Killing, Wanted, Decided

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• The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know how much you can trust your memory. You don't want it to be self-serving. And you have all these issues about how to present yourself. All these factors make it harder to do than a novel.

  Richard Hell

  Hurt, Memories, Self

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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 a perfect package out of them.

  Richard Hell

  Sex, Perfect, Pistols

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• There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.

  Richard Hell

  Loss, Kentucky, Cities

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.

  Richard Hell

  Writing, Years, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.

  Richard Hell

  Real, Focus, Relief

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