Johnny Thunders Quotes

• A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

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• 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!

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

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• I don’t eat cereal actually… Frosted Flakes… that’s as close as I can get.

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• I wouldn’t change a thing – except my bank balance.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Many people love me, many people hate me – there’s nobody in between. That’s the way I prefer it.

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• 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.

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• No one really knows me. People think they know me.

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

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

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Birth:	15th July, 1952
Death:	23rd April, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

John Anthony Genzale, better known by his stage name Johnny Thunders was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of the New York Dolls. He later played with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist. His albums list shown below: So Alone, Diary of a Lover, Hurt Me, and Que Sera Sera.

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