Quotes by David Johansen

About David Johansen:

David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls. He is also known for his work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.
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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,...

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great a...

David Johansen

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

David Johansen

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.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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.

David Johansen

When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

David Johansen

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

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

David Johansen

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

David Johansen

Author Bio

  • NameDavid Johansen
  • DescriptionAmerican singer
  • BornJanuary 9, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Musician; Singer; Songwriter