Jon Johansen Quotes
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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I love to perform live.
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I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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If my music can change someone's mood for the better even a little bit, that's amazing.
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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.
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My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.
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I've always had Paul Smith wallets for some reason.
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Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
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The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.
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There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.
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It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
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When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.
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The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.
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The gay community has been so faithful and good to me.
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Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.
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I don't like closed systems.
