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Johnny Flynn Quotes

South African - Musician | March 14, 1983 -

I always love going to New York.

Love New York New Always Going York

I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that.

Work Best Brain Remember Like Gig

I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught.

Family Day Wife Fishing Small Fish

I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts, to be right for the part, rather than just, 'Oh, he can play the fiddle.'

Great Play Want Seriously Right He

My thing about demos is that you usually prefer them to the finished thing.

You Finished About Them Thing Demos

My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.

Music Moment Me Process Discovery

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

God Think Back Looks Done Everyone

My dad was an actor, and he made it all seem quite magical. It felt like a slightly subversive thing, telling stories, when all of my other friends' parents were builders or bank clerks. It's always seemed quite magical to me.

Parents Me Friends Actor Bank Seem

Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me.

Me Want Actor Become More Always

When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had to play the violin and do orchestra practice and that sort of stuff. That meant I didn't get to do any school plays. I desperately wanted to do that.

Music School Practice Play Young

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

Music Poetry Writing Started Stuff

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.

People Mind Think Want Kind Why

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