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. Lydia Lunch More Quotes by Lydia Lunch More Quotes From Lydia Lunch Think your own thoughts. Lydia Lunch thinking 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. Lydia Lunch lunch people thinking Politics are always involved, even in my love songs. Lydia Lunch involved song I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline. Lydia Lunch ethos lunch thinking I'm like a one-woman protest machine. Lydia Lunch protest one-woman machines Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician. Lydia Lunch titles musician 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. Lydia Lunch waste-time music problem time If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike. Lydia Lunch someone know you inspirational Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever. Lydia Lunch buildings roads ghetto my-own If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' Lydia Lunch write better you literature 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. Lydia Lunch angry women stubborn independent The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the nightmare and horror that I witness; I just digest it and spew it back, with venom. Lydia Lunch back know insult truth
