Top 100 Quotes About Jack Johnson
#1. John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.
Halston Sage
#2. I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
Anushka Sharma
#3. The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
Tammin Sursok
#4. The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.
Geoffrey Ward
#5. I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.
Bryan Greenberg
#6. And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.
Jennifer Garner
#7. I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.
Jack Johnson
#8. The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.
Jack Johnson
#9. It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.
Jack Johnson
#10. Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.
Jack Johnson
#11. It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
Jack Johnson
#12. Love's just a waste of energy
and life's just a waste of time
so why don't we get together
we could waste everything tonight
Jack Johnson
#13. He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man.
Jack Johnson
#14. When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.
Jack Johnson
#15. Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.
Jack Johnson
#16. Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.
Jack Johnson
#17. I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.
Jack Johnson
#18. I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him
they were part of his "road," the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.
Joyce Johnson
#19. I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
Phil Hartman
#20. I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.
Jack Johnson
#22. People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.
Jack Johnson
#23. But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding.
Jonathan Darman
#25. You don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart
Jack Johnson
#26. All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.
Jack Johnson
#27. Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!
Maureen Johnson
#28. To be part of a community feels really good - to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It's a nice feeling.
Jack Johnson
#29. Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.
Jack Johnson
#30. Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Why are we here and where do we go
And how come it's so hard
Jack Johnson
#31. Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun.
Jack Johnson
#32. When I vote for a candidate I always try to learn as much as I can about them, but I guess I focus a lot on environmental issues, and I tend to vote along those lines.
Jack Johnson
#33. It's a lonely little chain if you don't add to it.
Jack Johnson
#34. Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
Jack Johnson
#35. Who's to say what's impossible?
Well they forgot this world keeps spinning.
And with each new day,
I can feel a change in everything.
Jack Johnson
#36. If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
Jack Johnson
#37. Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.
Jack Johnson
#38. The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.
Jack Johnson
#40. I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit.
Jack Johnson
#41. Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific.
Jack Johnson
#42. The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.
Jack Johnson
#43. We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.
Jack Johnson
#44. Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone
Jack Johnson
#45. Listen close and all else fades, fades away.
Jack Johnson
#46. I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing.
Jack Johnson
#47. Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.
Jack Johnson
#48. I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.
Jack Johnson
#49. There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven ...
Jack Johnson
#50. I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
Jack Johnson
#51. The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor ... I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.
Jack Johnson
#52. People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.
Jack Johnson
#53. Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch.
Jack Johnson
#54. I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.
Jack Johnson
#55. An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.
Jack Johnson
#56. Home is wherever we are if there's love here too
Jack Johnson
#57. President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.
Robert A. Caro
#58. Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.
Jack Johnson
#59. Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect ...
Jack Johnson
#60. If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.
Jack Johnson
#62. She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.
Jack Johnson
#63. I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.
Jack Johnson
#64. It might sound silly to some people, but if anybody wants to spend time to go out and glide on waves, it just feels like they have an appreciation for the joy of life and must be an okay person.
Jack Johnson
#65. I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.
Jack Johnson
#66. A lot of people spend their time just floating/
We were victims together but lonely.
Jack Johnson
#67. Schedules are impossible to me. I am excited to be on tour, but there are instances when I wish that I wasn't managed. The shows are fun, but six hour drives burn me out.
Jack Johnson
#68. I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
Jack Valenti
#69. Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.
Jack Johnson
#70. I want to turn the whole thing upside down
I'll find the things they say just can't be found
I'll share the love I find with everyone
We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song
I don't want this feeling to go away.
Jack Johnson
#71. The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.
Jack Johnson
#72. A billion people died on the news tonight.
Jack Johnson
#75. What is the purpose of my life, is it doesn't have to do with learning to let go?
Jack Johnson
#76. I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.
Jack Johnson
#77. Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.
Jack Johnson
#78. I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.
Jack Johnson
#79. I finish a lot of lyrics while I'm in the water and it's always pretty constructive for me to get out in the water. I'm not actually writing the words down, but I have time to think about words, and doing a lot of surfing usually gives me a little space and peace of mind to finish things up.
Jack Johnson
#80. The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.
Jack Johnson
#81. I can change the world with my own two hands
Jack Johnson
#82. It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
Jack Johnson
#83. Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it.
Jack Johnson
#84. Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
Jack Johnson
#85. Some fighter's waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn't amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.
Jack Johnson
#86. We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.
Jack Johnson
#87. Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.
Jack Johnson
#88. But you're so busy changing the world
Just one smile can change all of mine
Jack Johnson
#89. You and your heart shouldn't feel so far apart
Jack Johnson
#90. Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#91. It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.
Jack Ruby
#93. Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.
Jack Johnson
#94. I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
Jack White
#95. When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop.
Jack Johnson
#96. Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.
Jack Johnson
#97. Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.
Jack Johnson
#99. Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.
Christopher Buckley
#100. Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.
Jack Johnson
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