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Viv Albertine

British Musician

Born: Dec 1, 1954

Life Me People Think Women You

Related authors: Brian Eno Cat Stevens Freddie Mercury George Harrison George Michael Jimmy Page Robert Plant Sting

You've got one life: find your voice within it. Viv Albertine

Life You Find Voice Within Got Your

I read a lot when I was young. All the obvious, all the greats, from 'Le Grand Meaulnes,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' 'Fear and Loathing,' 'Catcher in the Rye,' 'The Bell Jar,' 'The Female Eunuch,' 'Valley of the Dolls,' 'The Feminine Mystique,' Tom Wolfe. Then, film took over for me. Film was so exciting in the '70s. Viv Albertine

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Strive to be different and better than what is already out there if you are creating - Benjamin Clementine does that. Viv Albertine

You Better Strive Out Be Different Does Than Different Creating

I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic. Viv Albertine

Integrity Honesty Old Ethics Punk True Still Very Authentic Truthfulness

People think you're vulnerable when you tell the truth, but it's never hurt me. Viv Albertine

Truth Me You Hurt People Think Tell Never Vulnerable

People say you mellow as you get older, and I really haven't. Viv Albertine

You People Older Mellow Say People Say Get Really

I hate to say it, but one of the worst things you could be called when I was younger was unfeminine. Viv Albertine

You Hate Say Worst Could Younger Things

We used to have massively long discussions about how we should stand on stage. Should we stand with our legs apart? No, all the guys with guitars in skinny jeans stand with their legs apart, and you'd think, 'We can't stand like that.' We'd spend hours and hours, days and days, discussing how to stand. Viv Albertine

You Long Stage Think Our Spend Guitars About Guys Days Like Hours Hours And Hours Massively How Discussing Discussions Legs Apart Should Stand Used Skinny Jeans

I think sometimes men find it easier to be a carer than an accessory. I mean, most women I know in bands are pretty lonely. Guys don't want to travel around with you. I know loads of women who do it, but guys don't do it. They're not brought up for it. Viv Albertine

Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Viv Albertine

Cancer Doctors Big Too Would Know Operate Chemotherapy Survive

I've had to fight for everything. Viv Albertine

Fight Everything Had

I'm still angry at so much - class, gender, society, the way we are constantly mentally coerced into behaving a certain way without us even knowing it. I feel so oppressed by the weight of it all that I just want to blow a hole in it all. Viv Albertine

Angry Class Gender Society Way Constantly Mentally Weight Feel Knowing Without Still Oppressed Blow Behaving Just Want Hole Us Much Certain Certain Way Even

I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men. Viv Albertine

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I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such a school.' They just bore me. Viv Albertine

Me You School Bore Born Know Just Autobiographies Stand Start

The older I get, the more the lying, the losing touch with your true thoughts and feelings, and the compromises required to fit in seem not worth the effort. It's my one go on Earth; why spend any more of it conforming to other people's rules and ideals? Viv Albertine

Thoughts People Worth Losing Feelings Older Other Lying Spend Earth Rules Seem Touch More Compromises True Ideals Go Fit Effort Get Any Conforming Required Your Why

I haven't found music comforting since the '80s, but it doesn't mean it's not good - it just doesn't work for me. It's shocking to me because music was my religion from the age of 11, and it's like I don't believe in my god any more. Viv Albertine

Work Music God Good Religion Me Age Comforting Believe More Since Like Because Shocking Any Just Mean Found

In the 1970s, girls didn't do anything. It wasn't their fault. For me and the other working-class girls I hung around with, our route was plotted - you were a secretary and a wife. I wanted to hitchhike around the world, go on motorbikes, be in bands. Viv Albertine

Me You World Fault Wife Girl Other Our Secretary Hung Around Go Were Bands Wanted Anything Working-Class Route

I didn't pursue happiness at all. I've never pursued it. I wasn't brought up to pursue it. Viv Albertine

Happiness Brought Pursue Pursued Never Up

Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look for happiness.' Viv Albertine

Happiness War Saying World Parents Both Both My Parents Through Look Around Go Grandparents Wars Lived Two World War World Wars

When I was pregnant, I prayed that my daughter would have brown, green, or grey eyes. Viv Albertine

Eyes Daughter Would Brown Prayed Green Grey Pregnant

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