Top 45 Charlotte Caffey Quotes

There’s been way too much talk about all our problems.

I saw Blondie open for the Ramones, and I remember being really impressed by Debbie Harry and her awkwardness.

I really didn’t ever think we’d get back together.

We don’t necessarily want to do a biopic. Mostly because it’s like, ‘Big deal. Band gets together and gets big. Then the excesses come and they fall apart.’

I’ve lived kind of a sad-happy life. It’s like, every time you take a breath, it’s heavy, but on the outside you’re like a clown family traveling along the universe.

I don’t want to be part of a band unless it’s fun.

It wasn’t much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.

I think the older we get, the better we perform.

In some ways, we were very innocent. And in other ways, we were just rock ‘n’ roll girls on the loose.

The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.

We were up for a Grammy, we sold millions of records and we toured the world I don’t know how many times. It was insane.

While we were touring for ‘Vacation,’ we weren’t aware that the record wasn’t doing well. It was a good tour, but the album didn’t go over with critics.

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

People at the record labels were like, ‘We don’t want to sign you, you’re girls’ – sexist, ridiculous nonsense.

Being in a band, whether your female or male, is really hard.

We thought we’d last forever. Then, of course, we didn’t, and that was shocking.

It’s like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can’t take the punk out of the girl.

We didn’t necessarily write about women’s rights or talk about it. We were just doing it.

If we were all happy and getting along every second of the day, we’d probably make some schmaltzy record.

We all came to the conclusion that we have an undeniable chemistry musically, that we might not ever find again. The mix of friction and camaraderie channels good songs, performances and laughs.

No one has done what we’ve done. We’re the first female band to have a No. 1 record.

We are just a rock and pop band, that’s what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the songs rather than it being a giant production.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

I think it took us being apart to really understand… who we were as Individuals, outside of the Go-Go’s.

We did three records in three years and I don’t know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.

To all musicians – forget gender – to all musicians, it’s about – do what makes you happy. Just go for it, you know?

We’re definitely hanging up the touring shoes but we’ll do other things. We’ll do an odd gig here and there but going out and actually touring for a month or two, we’re not doing that anymore.

I daydream about romance and stuff.

We were pretty crappy in the beginning. We really didn’t sound that great.

There’s definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.

I was more of a surfer girl and never really that punky.

We are just the most twisted, sick, hilarious people that I know.

The Go-Go’s were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.

Going to rehearsals was too depressing, and missing rehearsals was also depressing, so it was like a vicious circle.

We were approached by Alison Ellwood about the idea of doing a documentary. At first, we were a bit nervous because we didn’t want it come across as a salacious ‘Behind The Music’ kind of thing. Alison did such a great job. It really puts perspective on things.

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

We didn’t want to change who we are. We’re not going to sit there and go, ‘Let’s be a rap band now.’

If we would have had clear brains to take a break, instead of breaking up, we would have left room for balance in our lives.

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That’s what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.

I had written or cowritten eight of the ten songs on ‘Beauty and the Beat,’ and I had written our biggest hit, ‘We Got the Beat.’ How was I going to top all of that?

What’s the essence of the Go-Go’s? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great… we never felt that years later we’d be selling out shows.

Being in a band with guys didn’t feel like what I should be doing.

We’re not trying to impress anybody. We’re not trying to change anybody’s mind. We’re just out there playing, and it’s something we love.