Johnny Thunders
Johnny Thunders
Johnny Thunders, born John Anthony Genzale, Jr., was an American rock and roll/punk rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of the New York Dolls. He later played with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth15 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
affect life musical
Heroin doesn't affect my musical life at all.
ball following messed rolling tv
We did a TV show and they thought I was too messed up and wouldn't show it. That started the ball rolling with the press. They started following me.
american-musician mean three
I've got three boys. They look like me. They're called Dino, Guido and Little Johnny. They're my whole life. They mean more to me than music.
people want reason
A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.
thinking people gigs
A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.
car three cop
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
eight attention paper
I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous!
song stay-strong clubs
Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.
new-york home airports
I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere!
attitude dolls great-attitude
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
years eight wife
I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on heroin eight years and I want to try a different style of life. It made me split up from my wife. It ruined a lot of things for me.
cereal flakes breakfast-cereal
I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get.
rocks crowds enjoy
I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.
hate people way
Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.