ART & COMMERCE

"Yeah, but there are two different ways to look at that, obviously: homage or rip-off? There were a few incidences of direct, you know, lifts, and others are just flattering references," she laughed, adding that her group Blondie "started out with a uniqueness, but as soon as it became commercial then it was a routine in a way. We couldn't really escape it. The demand for the repetition of that same product was ungodly in a way. But I think that's the problem with art and commerce really."

-Debbie Harry (about music stars influenced by her)