Quotes by Daniel Johns

About Daniel Johns:

Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, singer, and songwriter. Best known as the former front man of the rock band Silverchair, Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac and, in 2007, was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone??'?s list of The 25 Most Under-rated Guitarists.
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I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

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I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

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I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

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None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

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There are no big groupie fans or anything.

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With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

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We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

Daniel Johns

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

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When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

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I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

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I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

Daniel Johns

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

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I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

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There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

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Author Bio

  • NameDaniel Johns
  • DescriptionAustralian musician
  • BornApril 22, 1979
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionSinger; Composer