David Johansen Quotes

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• Everything I've done I've just fallen into.
• I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.
• As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
• I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.
• I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
• I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.
• I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
• I've been tired since I was 15.
• I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.
• 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 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,…
• It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
• Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.
• 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…
• My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
• Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
• Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?
• The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
• 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…

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