David Janssen Quotes
23 quotations by David Janssen
![]() | When you do kids music, you don't get played on the radio. | ![]() |
![]() | They've taken me to rock and roll land, country rock land, and spiritual land... and that's all inside of me. | ![]() |
![]() | The music I've created has almost always connected. | ![]() |
![]() | The best thing about this particular type of success is that I feel like the biggest teacher in the world. | ![]() |
![]() | Someone told me years later that I played a wicked rhythm guitar, they said that was because I hit down on the top strings first which gives the guitar chords a stronger dose of treble. | ![]() |
![]() | So, bad luck turned into good. I believe it can always be that way. | ![]() |
![]() | Say something, do something that means something in this world. | ![]() |
![]() | Life deals us strange turns. | ![]() |
![]() | It didn't occur to me that I should restring the guitar. | ![]() |
![]() | If you go back to music I've written since I began. Varied. But, there's a thread of similarity. | ![]() |
![]() | I've been down lots of roads, musically and physically. | ![]() |
![]() | I'm still writing and thinking kids music. | ![]() |
![]() | I'm left handed and do everything left handed. | ![]() |
![]() | I searched through a local college placement office and found that the only direct dial phone call overseas was to Guam. I called and while I was still on the phone, they said they would hold positions for both my wife and I. | ![]() |
![]() | I just took a right handed guitar and learned like that. | ![]() |
![]() | Dad was a Missouri Synod Lutheran minister in the St. John's district of Portland, Oregon. | ![]() |
![]() | Classrooms are great, don't get me wrong. | ![]() |
![]() | By and large music is a medium of the senses, expressing emotions. | ![]() |
![]() | But, this album was well put together and the tones all sound good, the kids who helped were great, the arrangements are not too busy. And it's not overproduced. | ![]() |
![]() | But, the music that works and expresses inner thought the best is created from true feelings. | ![]() |
![]() | But, the big push came in 1964 when the Beatles invaded America and I found myself needing a guitar. | ![]() |
![]() | But, I just wanted to compile songs that I thought kids would like, and that I would like too. | ![]() |
![]() | A green flash is a tropical phenomenon. | ![]() |