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.David Johansen
Quotes to Explore
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
Karolina Kurkova -
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.
Becky G -
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.
Qandeel Baloch -
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.
Ed Koch -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
Ice Cube -
I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith -
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.
Hannah Mills -
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
Gavin DeGraw -
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.
D'Angelo
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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?
L.A. Reid -
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.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
M.I.A. -
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.
Lana Del Rey -
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.
Kaskade -
Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
R. Kelly
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
Sam Kinison -
Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
Christina Aguilera -
On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
Danica Patrick -
As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
Billy Williams -
I'm very competitive, and I want to be very successful, but at the end of the day, films to me are still films. I want them to be good, and I'll work the hardest, but at night, I go home to my life and my family, and that's where my heart lies.
Marc Platt -
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.
David Johansen