David Johansen Quotes
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
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Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.
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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
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Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
