David Johansen
David Johansen
David Roger Johansenis an American 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth9 January 1950
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
mother new-york father
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
hate acting roles
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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Young people are still looking and older people have found...
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Rock & Rollers don't dress for the weather.
tired
I've been tired since I was 15.
sleep
When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.
couple block guy
I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.
determine fall interest songs
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.
age assumed close death discovered early lifestyle pulled quite tour
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.
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Arthur, be a good Latter-day Saint, do your job, and everything will be fine.
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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.
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I had a picture of myself when I was a kid, how I'd look when I got old. I look in the mirror and think, This is pretty much it.
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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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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.