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Daniel Johns
46 quotes
“This next song is about... fish... just one singular fish... he was a lonely fish, but he died happy.”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 31st of August, 2007 at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, introducing "Tuna in the brine
“Thanks for coming tonight, on a Sunday night. Sixty-Minutes is on and there are probably some good stories you're missing. Thanks for choosing Silverchair over Sixty-Minutes.”
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“If I were a fisherman, i would catch fish. If i were an octagon, I'd have many sides and if I were a prostitute, I would fuck and fuck and fuck and fuck and fuck!”
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“Rip It Up: They also met Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament and Mike McCready at the Reading Festival in the U.K. and, much to Daniel's delight, ran into Soundgarden's Chris Cornell in the same area backstage.”
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“This guy, he just taught me chords and stuff. And after a year, I thought, I can't be bothered having lessons. So I just decided to figure out my own stuff. I never wanted to play all those fast solos. I just thought, I'll be like Pete Townshend of The Who. I'll do what he does and play powerful chords and stuff.”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how he learnt Guitar, Guitar School magazine, "Rock n' Roll high school" February 1996.
“It actually went like this: we were at school and Ben said he didn’t like Nirvana so much. Then one of our friends said: You should listen to Sliver. So he wanted to request Sliver for himself on the radio. And I wanted to request a song of an Australian group(You Am I), Berlin Chair. We told Chris to write Sliver Chair, but he wrote it as Silver Chair. Then we thought: That’s a good name. That’s how it went.”
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Recorded in: On the name 'Silverchair', Press interview, April 1996
“Rock Sound: Did you have an imaginary childhood friend?”
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“Rock Sound Magazine: Have you ever been attracted to anyone of the opposite sex?”
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“I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time. I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home. I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that. Before I go onstage I just take medication and I'm alright.”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Metal Hammer magazine, "Growing Pains" March 1999.
“Leaving school had a big impact on me, because it was the only place I could go and maintain normality and feel a part of something and not be Daniel from silverchair. Once that safety blanket had gone I felt uncomfortable about only being Daniel from silverchair.”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rolling Stone magazine, 1999
“When we were first playing, even though it was derivative, playing music was the best, there was nothing better. And then by the second album (Freak Show) we were like, playing music makes me angry, and by the third album (Neon Ballroom) I was like, I need to play music cos life sucks. And now all of a sudden there's this really youthful enthusiasm in the band, everyone around us, there's this real positivity and everyone's vibing off the music.”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kerrang! magazine, April 2002
“I'm aware that if you keep shifting there are going to be people who really respect you for it and just as many who go: 'There's no stability with that dude. I'm going to buy Nickelback's new album.'”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Australian, "Pop goes sad boy of rock" June 2004
“Not being able to tour for Diorama was definitely a huge disappointment. I was (and still am) really proud of that record but i also feel like the response to it was better than expected given the circumstances. It inspired me to top it with Young Modern.”
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Recorded in: , 2007
“Being someone who has been the frontman and the songwriter for a band that has been together since I was 12 years old, you do get to that point where you think: 'If I keep doing this for too long it's going to be all I can do' … which is why in Silverchair I kept changing.”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Australian, "Pop goes sad boy of rock" June 2004
“I mean we're living in the world of iTunes; I really hate that. What's going on now is that a lot of people just release three or four singles and the rest of it is just filler and boring.”
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Recorded in: July 2007
“As soon as you have a man who has no problem with maybe even alluding to androgyny and who's known for having gay friends, the media jumps on it and says, 'He's gay,' or 'He's bisexual'. I'm embarrassed for them. It's 2015 and I have heaps of gay friends and I don't care about being flamboyant. If I was bisexual, I'd say I was bisexual. If I was gay, I'd say I was gay. I wouldn't be ashamed of it. I'd celebrate it. I'd headline Mardi Gras and milk that puppy!”
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“I was about 14 when I realised I didn't have the same personality type as the people I grew up with. I wanted to be a really amazing artist – I wasn't like, humble, you know? I don't really have a logical comprehension of other people, I don't understand how other people are. I knew I was never going to be normal: white picket fence, get married, have three babies. I just wanted to nurture animals and have a miniature pig and miniature horse and a little cow and a couple of puppy dogs. That was way more interesting.”
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“There's a theory someone told me that the age you become famous is the age you're mostly going to stay forever. Which is kind of offensive! But there's a grain of truth to it. I'm always going to have that moment where I felt like, 'It's not going to be normal ever again.' Which is not a bad thing. There are heaps of good things that come with it. Now I can write whatever music I want, record wherever I want, pretty much work with whoever I want … I'd take that above being able to go to Bondi Beach any day.”
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“I would do the track and put guide vocals on it and Eddie really loved the version and said he wanted to keep my backing vocals in so my girlie harmonies are in the background. My 14-year-old self would have fucking died knowing that.”
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“That was on a TV show. There was this poor guy taking a rich guy through a hotel to experience the losses of the less fortunate than him. The rich guy is just complaining because he just wants to get out and the poor guy is saying you have to wait till tomorrow to get out. That's one of our least serious songs but it still has meaning to it.”
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“That [song] was about an execution I saw on tele, that was an ad I saw on tele. I got this video of an execution, and I just saw it, and I was watching it one night, and I had a dream about it, and I woke up and thought, 'Oh yeah, that's pretty cool', and I wrote a song about it.”
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“With 'Abuse Me', I just wanted to get all the feelings off my chest, the feelings I'd had when I read all the negative commentary. The song is basically saying, 'Say what you like. We don't give a fuck what you think. We're just playing our music.”
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“It's influenced a lot by Led Zeppelin and anything from that era really. Before the album, when I actually wrote it and showed Ben and Chris, Ben and Chris liked it and they wanted to continue working on it and write a bit more, and I didn't really like the song. And they were like, 'oh, come on, we'll just use it' and so I said, 'yeah all right,' just to see how it would turn out. And it ended up changed a little bit and now I'm really happy with it.”
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“On "The Door", quoted in”
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“The whole thing is about youth rebelling against people who are supposedly more important. It's about youth having total control over their own minds. They do not need overweight people in suits telling them what to do and how to act. It is all about just being yourself. The chorus is very sarcastic. It is not supposed to be taken seriously.”
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“On "Anthem for the Year 2000", quoted in”
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“On "Miss You Love", quoted in”
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“The Greatest View" is a song that really focuses on people's perceptions of the same problem or the same scenario. Basically what was going on in my mind was that I had a lot of people who were watching over me and watching my every move making sure that I didn't fall back in to the heap that I fell in to whilst writing Neon Ballroom. Because I was aware of that I felt like I had the greatest view from where I was from because I could see what was going on. I was aware of the situation, I was in control of my own destiny really.”
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“The water out of the tap is very hard to drink”
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“All the bridges in the world won't save you if there is no other side to cross to”
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“Bleach the green from the pastures”
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“Mistakes don't mean a thing if you don't regret them”
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“Love me for my mind, because I'm a dangerous heart”
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“Frozen eyes are bound to melt”
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“I don't want to be lonely, I just want to be alone”
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“You'll come along for the sun if you come at all”
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“There's hopeless smiles better than mine”
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“If only I could be as cool as you”
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“Lost my soul, lost my confidence in me”
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“Take the rope to my heart and fall”
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“Sex, drugs, and image is just enough to get you by in the real world”
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“Liberate the people that you hate”
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“She tastes the candy, sugerless, cancerous”
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“We are the youth! We'll take your fascism away”
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Recorded in: Anthem for the Year 2000
“Please die Ana, for as long as you're here, we're not”
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“I wanted a song that people could perceive as a love song, while the lyrics are actually very angry," he reveals. "That song is about not being able to establish a relationship with anyone, not being able to experience love outside of family. I've been with girls but only for short periods of time because I'm a but scared of commitment, so after a month it's like... I'm scared that if I really like someone it won't happen, so I cut it short. A lot of the time it just feels like it's not real love. We've got girls screaming and stuff, girls saying they love us, but I think they're in love with the idea of being in love with someone onstage or in love with people they see in magazines or on television. That's not real - it's totally false.”
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