There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
BETH DITTOI mean, if I was living to please people, I’d have never been in a band at all. I wouldn’t have anything awesome around. I’d just be bored.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.
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I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
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I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas – well, not favorite but something I’ve always felt grateful for – was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn’t tons of feminist literature floating around.
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When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so’s head, it’s tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
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Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music.
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I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter – I just didn’t identify as a songwriter at all.
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Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
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Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that’s what stuck to me; it’s like, you really are a factory. You don’t do things to make them, on your own time.
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I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.
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I’m naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn’t get through at least a pencil a month.
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Products are a must – full stop. I’m sorry to say it, but that bob won’t look so sleek on its own – you need a little help. It doesn’t have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
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I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
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Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
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