Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Wendy O. Williams

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Wendy O. Williams.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Wendy O. Williams

Wendy Orlean Williams was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Webster, New York, she came to prominence as the lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics. She was noted for her onstage theatrics which included partial nudity, exploding equipment, firing a shotgun, and chainsawing guitars. Performing her own stunts in videos, she often sported a mohawk hairstyle. In 1985, during the height of her popularity as a solo artist, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.
The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God.
I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up! — © Wendy O. Williams
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!
I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture. — © Wendy O. Williams
I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.
I'm still the same person I've always been. I can't say exactly what I'll do; I'm an excessive person. Talk about violence-----I don't do anything violent. Talk about violence, what's going on in Nicaragua? What's going on in El Salvador? That's violent. What are they doing to the planet with chemicals and acid rain? That's violent. What are people doing to each other? Raping. That's violent. I'm striking out at ac icon that has no life. There's a big difference between what has life and what doesn't. I mean. I've been a vegetarian for 16 years.
I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)
Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
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