#akin

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

#determine #elimination #fall #interest #kind

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. ↗

— Elton John

#comes #i #i am #i can #making

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. ↗

— Elton John

#fact #i #machine #more #taking

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. ↗

— Elton John

#doing #got #i #just #know

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough. ↗

— Elton John

#because #choose #dwight #enough #going

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions. ↗

— Lara St. John

#another #appearance #capable #decisions #despite

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#drawings #enjoyed #exist #i #i love

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#drawing #later #making #means #most

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress. ↗

— Amy Jo Johnson

#good #good living #hobby #i #living

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#arnold schwarzenegger #austrian #authority #criticised #denounced