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David Johansen Quotes

American - Musician | January 9, 1950 -

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.'

Time Better You Time Goes By Feeling

I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

Fun Having Fun Doing Want Having

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

Thought You Rock Way Band Roll

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

Looking Too Much Stage Memphis Got

I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

I Am Satisfied Anybody Am Perfectly

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.

Age Death Me Someone You Early

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

Business Music Best World Playing

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

Project Same Over Drag Again Really

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.

Wind Start Process You Fall Know

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

Father Mother New York New Irish

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.

Father Mother Three Old Two Lived

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

Life Future Time Child My Life Had

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