Jonny Quotes & Sayings

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them. — Jonny Greenwood

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

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

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course. — Jonny Lang

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. — Jonny Greenwood

Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place. — Jonny Lee Miller

The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time. — Jonny Greenwood

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

Bill Cosby 18th. — Jonny Fox

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me. — Jonny Wilkinson

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me. — Jonny Wilkinson

And more and more studies and reports were coming out demonstrating that the real initiators of damage in the arteries were oxidation and inflammation, with cholesterol more or less in the role of innocent bystander. Oxidation and inflammation, along with sugar and stress (more on that in chapters 4 and 8), were clearly what aged the human body the most. — Jonny Bowden

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

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

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept. — Jonny Wilkinson

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

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s. — Jonny Greenwood

I know that Martin Johnson [the England coach] was in the stands, but I didn't feel it was up to me to impress them. He and his assistant [Brian Smith] were here to support me. — Jonny Wilkinson

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

never use a halogen light bulb, as it could start a fire. — Jonny Staples

Peanuts/Peanut Butter — Jonny Bowden

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

I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me — Jonny Lang

Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end. — Jonny Wilkinson

I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember. — Jonny Wilkinson

I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season - the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I'm proud to be a Red Sox for those times. — Jonny Gomes

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist. — Jonny Lang

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really. — Jonny Lee Miller

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

I feel so blessed, and God has been so good to me. — Jonny Lang

My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger. — Jonny Weston

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves. — Jonny Greenwood

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

No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything. — Jonny Greenwood

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

I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen. — Jonny Wilkinson

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

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

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

You can be anything in this life no matter what anyone says - all you have to do is believe, just believe in yourself. — Steve James Samsel

Constable N stepped away from the car, into the darkness where Darren could not see where his gun was pointing, and fired two rounds into the air. The gunshots cracked the roof of the night sky and echoed back at us. My first thought was that they could be heard all over Toekomsrus; I wondered how many imaginations had in that instant conjured a different story to explain the gunshots; a record of all those stories, I found myself thinking, would probably document every fear this place has of itself and its young men. — Jonny Steinberg

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

I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time. — Jonny Weston

Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower. — Jonny Wilkinson

YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOU CHOOSE IT TO BE FROM EVERY MOMENT ONWARDS, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF YOUR CONTROL. AT TIMES YOU WILL HAVE TO REGROUP AND ADAPT DUE TO ISSUES OUTSIDE OF YOUR CONTROL. BUT MANY OF LIFE'S OUTCOMES ARE DETERMINED BY ITS CHIEF MASTER: YOU! — Jonny Oates

Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing. — Jonny Lee Miller

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands. It's very old and traditional, but then, so is an orchestra and so is a string section. — Jonny Greenwood

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world. — Jonny Greenwood

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful. — Jonny Greenwood

like a bunch of mimes trapped in an invisible box within which one of the occupants has farted. — Jonny Nexus

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else. — Jonny Greenwood

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

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

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

By the time I got to high school, I didn't play anything but baseball because I was on a mission. I really wanted to get a scholarship. I really wanted to focus all my time and efforts on baseball. When I got up to Florida State, God spoke to me very clearly and called me out of that and called me into music, which up until that point had just been a hobby. — Jonny Diaz

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something. — Jonny Lang

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad. — Jonny Lee Miller

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

I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics. — Jonny Lang

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered. — Jonny Greenwood

Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites. — Jonny Lang

When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda just let it happen and it's not really any work. I love those moments. Nothing can beat that for me. — Jonny Lang

I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot they had left was a theater class. It was so annoying, but I took it and then I thought it was the greatest thing; the most socially creative. I dropped out of school immediately and moved to New York to start acting. I was 19. — Jonny Weston

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

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of. — Jonny Lang

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

The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom. — Will Champion

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else. — Jonny Greenwood

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel. — Jonny Wilkinson

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

The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar. — Jonny Greenwood

I only get the points because I have team-mates who do the work and put me in the position to get them. — Jonny Wilkinson

I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet. — Jonny Wilkinson

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input. — Jonny Lee Miller

If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back. — Jonny Lee Miller

It was a good opportunity to show the Reds the guidelines on the catwalk. — Jonny Gomes

The police and the vulnerable are natural allies. That they are so is counterintuitive and strange, for they also loathe one another. — Jonny Steinberg

I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly. — Jonny Lee Miller

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music. — Jonny Lang

There are not so many murders in this township, I think to myself, and not so few policemen, that a killing should be treated like an old woman who has lost her cat. — Jonny Steinberg

It's always good to get the bully back one day. — Jonny Gomes

I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album. — Jonny Lang

When I saw the Penderecki concert in London, in '92 or '93, I thought there were speakers in the room. It was just strings. But I could hear these kind of buzzings and rumblings, and I was like, 'Where is this all coming from?' And that was just better, to my ears. Odder, stranger, more magical. — Jonny Greenwood

I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time. — Jonny Lang

I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be. — Jonny Lang

If you have a weakness, everyone sees it all over the country and the other team is going to exploit it. — Jonny Gomes

One of my biggest influences of all time would probably be one of my soccer coaches, Coach Darlington, from high school. He was always trying to get me to push myself really hard. No excuses. I always hated him, but it paid off. I think that's what life is all about ... when you push through the hard stuff and it pays off. — Jonny Weston

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable. — Jonny Lang

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. — Jonny Greenwood

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

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right. — Jonny Greenwood

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

I spent a couple of months just riding a bike doing my own training in the streets. — Jonny Lee Miller

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you. — Jonny Lee Miller

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses. — Jonny Greenwood

To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied. — Jonny Wilkinson

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

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me. — Jonny Wilkinson

But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on. — Jonny Greenwood

'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