Quotations and phrases - David Janssen

A green flash is a tropical phenomenon.
-- David Janssen

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

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

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

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.
-- David Janssen

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

Classrooms are great, don't get me wrong.
-- David Janssen

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

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

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.
-- David Janssen

I'm left handed and do everything left handed.
-- David Janssen

I'm still writing and thinking kids music.
-- David Janssen

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

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

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

Life deals us strange turns.
-- David Janssen

Music was important in my life as a part of the religious training in the Lutheran Church.
-- David Janssen

People get very into pigeon-holing music.
-- David Janssen

Say something, do something that means something in this world.
-- David Janssen

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

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.
-- David Janssen

Sorry to get political, but 98 years of territories staying only territories with no true voting representation in the US congress is too long.
-- David Janssen

That similarity is in the melodies that I've written.
-- David Janssen

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

The first short period of time I was homesick.
-- David Janssen

The music I've created has almost always connected.
-- David Janssen

The plans are on the board to record a couple tunes with my brothers Bob, and Tim, and my good friend and former Diamond Jeff Patterson.
-- David Janssen

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

When I saw Paul McCartney playing bass left handed I thought, hey, that's ok.
-- David Janssen

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

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