Johnny Thunders Quotes

#1. For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.

Nikki Sixx

#2. No one really knows me. People think they know me.

Johnny Thunders

#3. Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

Raymond Smullyan

#4. We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

Johnny Thunders

#5. Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.

Jon D Harrison

#6. The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

Johnny Thunders

#7. 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.

Johnny Thunders

#8. It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

Lauren Willig

#9. 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!

Johnny Thunders

#10. 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.

Johnny Thunders

#11. Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

B.F. Skinner

#12. Because this was what Ove had learned: if one didn't have anything to say, one had to find something to ask. If there was one thing that made people forget to dislike one, it was when they were given the opportunity to talk about themselves.

Fredrik Backman

#13. 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.

Johnny Thunders

#14. A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

Johnny Thunders

#15. Whatever you do, do something else.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#16. 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.

Johnny Thunders

#17. Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

Johnny Thunders

#18. A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

Johnny Thunders

#19. I don't eat cereal actually ... Frosted Flakes ... that's as close as I can get.

Johnny Thunders

#20. It takes at least one to make a marriage.

Jean Kerr

#21. The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Johnny Thunders

#22. Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

Alan Cohen

#23. Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.

Johnny Thunders

#24. I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

Johnny Thunders

#25. There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

Natalie Dormer

#26. Judas : handling betrayal with sincerity:

Ikechukwu Joseph