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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

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

~David Johansen

Topics: Doing Exactly Exactly What Fun Having Having Fun Want

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

~David Johansen

Topics: Band Flamboyant Rock Rock N Roll Roll Supposed Thought Way Were You

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

~David Johansen

Topics: Am Anybody Perfectly Satisfied I Am

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

~David Johansen

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

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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

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

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Topics: Father Irish Librarian Mother New New York Norwegian Tenor York

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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

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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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Topics: Barely Child Consider Future Had Life My Life Recall Time

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 9th, 1950

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