Chrissie Hynde Quotes

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform.

I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

When I wrote the first album I had never played live before, and I'd never been on tour. So that was really just me and my guitar.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I just want to play music with a band, live.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.