David Johansen Quotes

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

David Johansen

• Singing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • God
  • Friends

• I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Listen
  • Get

• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Years

• Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Imagination
  • Irish
  • Creepy

• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Laws
  • Thieves

• I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Three

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Unique
  • Place
  • Special

• My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • Father
  • College

• There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • You
  • Something
  • Obvious

• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • California
  • Say

• As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • Horse

• I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Reality
  • Artist
  • Distance

• But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with livingCause it's the ones with the sorest throats Laura,who have done the most singing.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Done
  • Singing

• It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Life
  • Music
  • Long

• In Paris one is too preoccupied by what one sees and what one hears, however strong one is; what I am doing here has, I think, the merit of not resembling anyone, because it is simply the expression of what I myself have experienced.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Strong
  • Paris

• I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.

  

  Ashley Benson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Pretty

• The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

  

  David Johansen
  • Singing