David Janssen Quotes

23 quotations by David Janssen

When you do kids music, you don't get played on the radio.

They've taken me to rock and roll land, country rock land, and spiritual land... and that's all inside of me.

The music I've created has almost always connected.

The best thing about this particular type of success is that I feel like the biggest teacher in the world.

Someone told me years later that I played a wicked rhythm guitar, they said that was because I hit down on the top strings first which gives the guitar chords a stronger dose of treble.

So, bad luck turned into good. I believe it can always be that way.

Say something, do something that means something in this world.

Life deals us strange turns.

It didn't occur to me that I should restring the guitar.

If you go back to music I've written since I began. Varied. But, there's a thread of similarity.

I've been down lots of roads, musically and physically.

I'm still writing and thinking kids music.

I'm left handed and do everything left handed.

I searched through a local college placement office and found that the only direct dial phone call overseas was to Guam. I called and while I was still on the phone, they said they would hold positions for both my wife and I.

I just took a right handed guitar and learned like that.

Dad was a Missouri Synod Lutheran minister in the St. John's district of Portland, Oregon.

Classrooms are great, don't get me wrong.

By and large music is a medium of the senses, expressing emotions.

But, this album was well put together and the tones all sound good, the kids who helped were great, the arrangements are not too busy. And it's not overproduced.

But, the music that works and expresses inner thought the best is created from true feelings.

But, the big push came in 1964 when the Beatles invaded America and I found myself needing a guitar.

But, I just wanted to compile songs that I thought kids would like, and that I would like too.

A green flash is a tropical phenomenon.