Top 100 Jonny Quotes
#1. Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland
Phil Thompson
#2. Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.
Luther Allison
#3. Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.
Colin Greenwood
#4. A living. Without Jonny, Student almost fell to pieces.
Richard Branson
#5. Jake once said on stage that Jonny was the mighty in their storm, and now I see that Jake is my mighty storm. He's broken and complex, and no one knows him like I do, or ever will. He needs me. He's my storm to calm. And I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing just that.
Samantha Towle
#6. You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible mudslide in Hollywood and I lost my collection, but I was also at an early age the voice of 'Jonny Quest;' it was a cartoon; so I am kind of a latent fan boy.
Tim Matheson
#7. Mom, is the world coming to an end?" Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth.
"No, it isn'T," Mom said, folding her lawn chair and carrying it to the front of the house. "And yes, you do have to go to school tomorrow.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#8. This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#9. On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.
Angelina Jolie
#10. I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.
Bryan Ferry
#11. The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
Will Champion
#12. Shit," Jonny mumbled as he stepped on something soft and clinging in the doorway of the abandoned hotel. Then "Shit" again as he recognized the accuracy of his curse.
Richard Kadrey
#13. I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.
Jonny Wilkinson
#14. I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.
Jonny Lang
#15. Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.
Jonny Lee Miller
#16. When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.
Jonny Greenwood
#17. I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.
Jonny Greenwood
#18. Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.
Jonny Lang
#20. Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
Jonny Greenwood
#21. I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
Jonny Wilkinson
#22. I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.
Jonny Lang
#23. I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.
Jonny Wilkinson
#24. From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
Jonny Diaz
#25. You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.
Jonny Lee Miller
#26. The police and the vulnerable are natural allies. That they are so is counterintuitive and strange, for they also loathe one another.
Jonny Steinberg
#27. I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
Jonny Lang
#28. When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
Jonny Lang
#30. I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.
Jonny Lee Miller
#31. I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!' ... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.
Jonny Greenwood
#32. I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.
Jonny Lang
#33. I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.
Jonny Lang
#34. Right now I really enjoy writing songs.
Jonny Lang
#35. When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.
Jonny Lee Miller
#36. I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.
Jonny Wilkinson
#37. Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.
Jonny Lang
#38. With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.
Jonny Lang
#39. It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.
Jonny Greenwood
#40. Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.
Jonny Wilkinson
#41. Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.
Jonny Greenwood
#42. Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
Jonny Lang
#43. I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!
Jonny Lee Miller
#44. If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.
Jonny Lang
#45. I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet.
Jonny Wilkinson
#48. Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
Jonny Wilkinson
#49. When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
Jonny Wilkinson
#50. I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.'
Jonny Weston
#51. I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.
Jonny Lang
#52. Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.
Jonny Lee Miller
#53. Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.
Jonny Lee Miller
#54. I have two older brothers, and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.
Jonny Weston
#55. I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.
Jonny Greenwood
#56. Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.
Jonny Lang
#57. I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.
Jonny Lee Miller
#58. I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.
Jonny Lang
#59. For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.
Jonny Wilkinson
#61. I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
Jonny Lang
#62. The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.
Jonny Lee Miller
#63. I feel so blessed, and God has been so good to me.
Jonny Lang
#65. I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.
Jonny Lang
#66. The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.
Jonny Wilkinson
#67. You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.
Jonny Lang
#68. What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.
Jonny Greenwood
#69. I'm glad I've learned what I've learned when I learned it.
Jonny Lang
#71. The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.
Jonny Wilkinson
#72. I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
Jonny Greenwood
#73. My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.
Jonny Lang
#74. During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
Jonny Lang
#75. I love all kinds of different music.
Jonny Lang
#76. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked. Genesis 3:7.
Jonny Cox
#77. But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.
Jonny Lang
#78. Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.
Jonny Greenwood
#79. never use a halogen light bulb, as it could start a fire.
Jonny Staples
#80. Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.
Jonny Wilkinson
#81. I've literally become comfortable with approaching whatever style of music at any time.
Jonny Lang
#82. I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
Jonny Greenwood
#83. There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the cinema - the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes.
Jonny Greenwood
#84. I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.
Jonny Wilkinson
#85. Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.
Jonny Greenwood
#86. Praise God we don't have to hide scars
Jonny Diaz
#87. I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.
Jonny Lang
#88. It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
Jonny Greenwood
#89. Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.
Jonny Lang
#90. Egalitarianism trumps elitism. Only a selfish fool will tell you otherwise
Jonny Oates
#91. I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
Jonny Lee Miller
#92. There are certain times in a concert when I'll call an audible because I feel like God is calling me to play a different song. But truthfully, I feel called to play for the church whether it's song being played on Christian radio or it's concerts I'm doing primarily in churches.
Jonny Diaz
#93. I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.
Jonny Greenwood
#94. I moved from Minnesota out to Los Angeles and I thought I was going to hate it out there, but I really like it.
Jonny Lang
#95. My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.
Jonny Wilkinson
#96. I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.
Jonny Wilkinson
#97. I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.
Jonny Lang
#98. When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.
Jonny Lee Miller
#99. What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.
Jonny Wilkinson
#100. 'The Master' with Joaquin Phoenix puts up a good fight, but my favorite movie of all time is 'The Wizard of Oz.' I just love it. I watched it over and over again as a child, and I think it has all the elements of wonder, and it's a beautiful story.
Jonny Weston
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