Johnny Flynn

I'm a huge David Hockney fan.

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I always love going to New York.

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I'm not that politically educated.

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My dad was working class.

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I think Bob Odenkirk is phenomenal.

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I'm not a funny person.

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Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.

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I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

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I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.

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A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.

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Music always gets bumped until I have some time to get around to it.

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Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

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We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us.

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The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

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I really love a lot of early Sixties R&B, rock n' roll, and I love performing songs that have that power and…

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I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

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I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts…

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Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us.

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I've been cast in a lot of comedies. I've done things like multi-cam sitcoms: you know, 'Seinfeld' type... not as good as…

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I fell in love with the legend of Paul Robeson as a kid. My dad would tell me all these amazing stories…

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You might as well acknowledge what came before, because you can never do something wholly new. It's not unoriginal to make your…

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It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that,…

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I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works…

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I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it's a totally different creative environment to the 'bedroom…

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I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts,…

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My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before…

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Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if…

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If you're trying to do something wholly new, it's hard to fully trust it. But if you use forms that have come…

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I feel really lucky that I somehow have blagged my way into loads of different experiences. I find making a film fascinating,…

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I'm often the one in my gang of friends who's worried about how we're going to get from A to B. I'm…

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I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

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As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.

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My thing about demos is that you usually prefer them to the finished thing.

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I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

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I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out to do.

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I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that.

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I played trumpet for Noah and the Whale a couple of times.

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I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

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I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

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Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

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