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" I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately. "
David Johansen
Band
Brian
Full
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" My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. "
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New York
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" 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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" Everything I've done I've just fallen into. "
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Fallen
Everything
Done
" When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living. "
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Living
Sleeping
" I've been tired since I was 15. "
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" 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 adjunct to my life. "
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Me
Life
" Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands. "
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Most
Bands
Commercial
" 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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Band
People
" The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat. "
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Music
Mind
Beat
" I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it. "
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Having Fun
Having
Fun
" 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. "
David Johansen
Wind
Start
Process
" 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
Now
Been
I Am
" 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
Singing
You
Doing
" It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again. "
David Johansen
Really
Over
Drag
" 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. "
David Johansen
Age
Death
Early
" 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. "
David Johansen
Important
Feeling
Know
" I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. "
David Johansen
Music
Lot
Listen
" 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
Mother
Old
Father
" I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it. "
David Johansen
Know
Reason
Why
" 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. "
David Johansen
Blues
Jazz
Music
" We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant. "
David Johansen
Band
Thought
You
" I'm afraid of me. "
David Johansen
Afraid
Me
" 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.' "
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Time
Time Goes By
Better
" When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records. "
David Johansen
Kid
Had
Charles
" Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable. "
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World
Show
Music
" I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli. "
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Stage
Got
Like
" I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am. "
David Johansen
Satisfied
Am
Anybody
" 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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Singing
Person
Language
" You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next. "
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Life
Try
You
" Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?' "
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Like
Sometimes
Voice