Top 40 Debbie Harry Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.”

— Debbie Harry

2. “The only person I really believe in is me.”

— Debbie Harry

3. “I have a lot of regrets, but I’m not going to think of them as regrets.”

— Debbie Harry

4. “Capote wrote every day. He said that’s the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.”

— Debbie Harry

5. “To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.”

— Debbie Harry

6. “I don’t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it’s got my name on it.”

— Debbie Harry

7. “But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.”

— Debbie Harry

8. “I thought I’d live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.”

— Debbie Harry

9. “I really am a mystic. I don’t know where I got it from.”

— Debbie Harry

10. “I do know the effect that music still has on me – I’m completely vulnerable to it. I’m seduced by it.”

— Debbie Harry

11. “How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That’s my question.”

— Debbie Harry

12. “I take lots of vitamins, but I don’t think that’s what keeps us going.”

— Debbie Harry

13. “Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.”

— Debbie Harry

14. “That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.”

— Debbie Harry

15. “I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it’s in a club, whether it’s in a bar, it doesn’t matter, and I just work on New Year’s Eve because I always feel it’s very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.”

— Debbie Harry

16. “I always work on New Year’s Eve, no matter what.”

— Debbie Harry

17. “And I wasn’t convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.”

— Debbie Harry

18. “At this point I might not be the biggest star in the world and I may not be the greatest artist in the world, but I have achieved a very wide spread of interesting experiences. And I’m very happy about that.”

— Debbie Harry

19. “I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.”

— Debbie Harry

20. “Music is wonderful. Especially if there’s some kind of content to it.”

— Debbie Harry

21. “Lately I’ve been believing that music predates speech.”

— Debbie Harry

22. “You always fall for the rascal or the guy who’s got a little bit of the devil in him. You can’t help it.”

— Debbie Harry

23. “You have to leave room for the other person’s ego.”

— Debbie Harry

24. “We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that’s where language comes from.”

— Debbie Harry

25. “I don’t think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn’t really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.”

— Debbie Harry

26. “In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.”

— Debbie Harry

27. “The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby.”

— Debbie Harry

28. “I’ve had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year’s Eve.”

— Debbie Harry

29. “But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.”

— Debbie Harry

30. “The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.”

— Debbie Harry

31. “I love the ACLU and I’m concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority – I don’t know who they are.”

— Debbie Harry

32. “I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that – I really do, because it’s the latest and it’s the newest and it’s a little bit better.”

— Debbie Harry

33. “Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.”

— Debbie Harry

34. “I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.”

— Debbie Harry

35. “And New Year’s Eve is very, very important to me.”

— Debbie Harry

36. “Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don’t see it.”

— Debbie Harry

37. “I mean I think that Blondie’s influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.”

— Debbie Harry

38. “I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I’m so much more focused than I was in the early times.”

— Debbie Harry

39. “For me, performance is about forgetting what I’m wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it’s right.”

— Debbie Harry

40. “Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn’t have with Blondie.”

— Debbie Harry

41. “We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.”

— Debbie Harry

42. “Drugs aren’t always about feeling good. Many times they’re about feeling less.”

— Debbie Harry