David Johansen Quotes
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.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.
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If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.
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Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
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I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
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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.
