John Anthony Genzale (Johnny Thunders) Quotes
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
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Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
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I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
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I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.
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There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.
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I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.
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I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.
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So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
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I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.
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The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
