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I got arrested once on stage ...

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

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The stuff that I dig, it's us...

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.

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In the late '70s, I had a ban...

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.

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Music is my love and to me ac...

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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Most bands are commercial ent...

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

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I think we as a band, as indi...

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

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You know, when you're making ...

You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.

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Until I was six years old we ...

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

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I still do a lot of shows wit...

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

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You know when you read that s...

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.

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Sometimes I've found that by ...

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

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As I recall, my life as a chi...

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

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My father was a Norwegian ten...

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

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The world today is the same a...

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.

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I mean, if you asked me what ...

I mean, if you asked me what I’m going to be doing when I’m 85, I’d make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I’ll be singing.

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Sometimes when I hear my voic...

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

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When you're a kid, you have t...

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, "I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist."

David Johansen 15 quotes

I think we as a band, as indi...

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things.

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Rock & Rollers don't dress fo...

Rock & Rollers don't dress for the weather.

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I don't know if it's possible...

I don't know if it's possible to affect my ego any more. There's no room left. For me, I think I make music like the way I think it should be made, like what rock should sound like. It has nothing to do with the current marketplace. And so from that state of mind, it's gonna sound different from anything else out there. And when something sounds different, I think that can be inspiring to other musicians.

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....