Johnny Thunders famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.
-- Johnny Thunders

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

#Hate #People #Way
The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.
-- Johnny Thunders

#Volume
No one really knows me. People think they know me.
-- Johnny Thunders

#Thinking #People #Know Me
I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on ***** 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

#Eight #Years #Wife
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
-- Johnny Thunders

#Attitude #Dolls #Great Attitude
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

#New York #Home #Airports
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

#Song #Stay Strong #Groups
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

#Eight #Pages #Attention
I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get.
-- Johnny Thunders

#Cereal #Flakes
Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.
-- Johnny Thunders

#Attitude #Rocks #Guitar
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

#Rocks #Crowds #Enjoy
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
-- Johnny Thunders

#Car #Three #Cop
A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.
-- Johnny Thunders

#Thinking #People #Gigs
A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.
-- Johnny Thunders

#People #Want #Reason

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