David Johansen Quotes

• I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

  David Johansen

  Couple, Block, Guy

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• Rock & Rollers don't dress for the weather.

  David Johansen

  Rocks, Weather, Dresses

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• When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.

  David Johansen

  Sleep

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• I don't know if it's possible to affect my ego any more. There's no room left. For me, I think I make music like the way I think it should be made, like what rock should sound like. It has nothing to do with the current marketplace. And so from that state of mind, it's gonna sound different from anything else out there. And when something sounds different, I think that can be inspiring to other musicians.

  David Johansen

  Thinking, Ego, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

  David Johansen

  Memphis, Too Much, Stage

  "Sex, Drugs, and Drag". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. March 3, 2011.

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• I've been tired since I was 15.

  David Johansen

  Tired

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• I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

  David Johansen

  Satisfied

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• I mean, if you asked me what I’m going to be doing when I’m 85, I’d make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I’ll be singing.

  David Johansen

  Mean, Mind, Singing

  "The Survivors: David Johansen". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

  David Johansen

  Playing Music, World, Music Is

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• The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.

  David Johansen

  People, World, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things.

  David Johansen

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

  David Johansen

  Hate, Acting, Roles

  "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

  David Johansen

  Projects, Drag

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

  David Johansen

  Alive, Reason, Knows

  "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

  David Johansen

  Band, Enterprise

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• I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

  David Johansen

  Fun, Having Fun, Want

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• Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

  David Johansen

  Men, Voice, Tape

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• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

  David Johansen

  Different, Kind, Different Kinds

  "The Survivors: David Johansen". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

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• A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

  David Johansen

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

  David Johansen

  Done, Fallen

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• As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

  David Johansen

  Children, Consuming, Recalls

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• I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

  David Johansen

  House, Listening, Records

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• Young people are still looking and older people have found.

  David Johansen

  People, Found, Young

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• When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, "I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist."

  David Johansen

  Kids, Cutting, Feelings

  "Sex, Drugs, and Drag". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. March 3, 2011.

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• When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

  David Johansen

  Kids, Records

  Interview with Michaelangelo Matos, www.avclub.com. June 1, 2009.

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