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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. ↗

— David Johansen

#blues #comes #especially #even #i

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. ↗

— David Johansen

#better #collecting #david #had #i

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

— David Johansen

#flamboyant #rock #roll #roll band #supposed

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#back #creatures #excited #find #go

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?' ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#around #back #children #feel #gay

Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier. ↗

— Daymond John

#business #buzz #ceo #country #day

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards. ↗

— Elton John

#anywhere #backwards #fly #flying #forwards

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. ↗

— Elton John

#fabulous #gift #had #instrument #jerry

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. ↗

— Lara St. John

#all things #being #bucket #during #hit

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know. ↗

— Lara St. John

#era #grateful #having #history #i