The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
If you're in a garage band, it's about being better than the band in the next-door garage. But in the folk tradition,… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the legend of Paul Robeson as a kid. My dad would tell me all these amazing stories… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that,… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I really love a lot of early Sixties R&B, rock n' roll, and I love performing songs that have that power and… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I think the two are kind of synonymous for me; songwriting is like my form of diary making. It's how I process… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word -… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share
I feel really lucky that I somehow have blagged my way into loads of different experiences. I find making a film fascinating, I find… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share
I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share
In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share
Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share
Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share
I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts, to be… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share
The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share
Diane Cluck is part of the anti-folk movement in New York. She's got a really haunting voice, and she usually sings in the pentatonic… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share
