David Johansen quotes
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“I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.”
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“I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.”
-- David JohansenSource : "The Survivors: David Johansen". Interview with Mike Flaherty, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.
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“It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.”
-- David JohansenSource : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. March 15, 2011.
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“Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.”
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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 JohansenSource : "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.
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“My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.”
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“Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.”
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“Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?”
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“The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.”
-- David JohansenSource : Interview with Michaelangelo Matos, www.avclub.com. June 1, 2009.
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“Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.”
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“When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.”
-- David JohansenSource : Interview with Michaelangelo Matos, www.avclub.com. June 1, 2009.
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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 JohansenSource : "The Survivors: David Johansen". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.
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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.”
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“Everything I've done I've just fallen into.”
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“I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.”
-- David JohansenSource : "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.
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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.”
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“I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.”
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“I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.”
-- David JohansenSource : Source: aalbc.com
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“I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.”
-- David JohansenSource : "Sex, Drugs, and Drag". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. March 3, 2011.
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“I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.”
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“I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.”
-- David Johansen
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