Top 29 Daniel Johnston Quotes
#1. There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. There are sometimes people who are great at both the technique and the creativity, the two sides of the coin, maybe Jimi Hendrix.
Jeffrey Lewis
#2. Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation
Mark Linkous
#3. Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
Eddie Vedder
#5. I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.
Daniel Johnston
#6. To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.
Tim Berners-Lee
#8. I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.
Lauren Bacall
#9. When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.
Daniel Johnston
#12. Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.
Daniel Johnston
#13. I got very spoiled. Everybody said you will never ever work on such a good movie, you know. I did, because I went on to work on Captain America, which also has a great director, which is Joe Johnston, one of my heroes who designed the old Star Wars movies.
Daniel Simon
#14. I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
Dave Matthews
#16. I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.
Daniel Johnston
#17. I try to point my finger,/ but the wind keeps// spinning me around
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#18. I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.'
Krysten Ritter
#19. When I'm creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.
Nino Rota
#20. Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
#22. When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of drawings because that's where I get most of my spending cash and I just always have to have new records, to get something to satisfy my listening pleasure.
Daniel Johnston
#23. Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.
Daniel Johnston
#24. I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.
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#25. Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
Stephen Fry
#27. I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.
Daniel Johnston
#28. I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.
Daniel Johnston
#29. For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
Daniel Johnston
