Quotes by Johnny Flynn - Page 2

My dad was an actor, and he always said that work was work; you can't turn your nose up at it. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, and he had this real work ethic, which I inherited.
Johnny Flynn /
Growing Up
Real Work
Work Ethic
Work Money Dad
Ethic
Inherited
Nose
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Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.
Johnny Flynn /
Behave
Bridge
People Way Try
Certain Way
Invent
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I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'
Johnny Flynn /
Getting Older
Give Me
Me People Listening
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I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts, to be right for the part, rather than just, 'Oh, he can play the fiddle.'
Johnny Flynn /
Fiddle
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I'm often the one in my gang of friends who's worried about how we're going to get from A to B. I'm the one running around saying, 'Is somebody going to do something about it?' Everyone else is bit more chilled.
Johnny Flynn /
Chilled
Gang
Worried
Everyone Else
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My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It's very loud. It's the type of guitar that Son House and Robert Johnson played.
Johnny Flynn /
Amplification
Guitar
House
Johnson
Loud
Son
Type
Played
Call
Guys
National
Robert
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I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
Johnny Flynn /
Letting
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The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other.
Johnny Flynn /
Parenting
Compromise
Handy
Love Hope Music
Concentrated
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Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground. The songs sound quite old, even if they're new. They sound like they've been sung by different people for years.
Johnny Flynn /
Folk Music
Music People New
Different People
Folk
Perceiving
Sung
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I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it's a totally different creative environment to the 'bedroom recordings' I'd done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone.
Johnny Flynn /
Bedroom
Creative Environment
Explain
Recordings
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I just said, casually, 'You know, I passed up on auditioning for Einstein.' And my friend was like, 'You idiot, you have to do it!' She made me do it. I sent the tapes off assuming that somebody would say, 'Ha ha, very funny.'
Johnny Flynn /
Assuming
Auditioning
Casually
Einstein
My Friend
Passed
Tapes
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My dad was an actor, and he made it all seem quite magical. It felt like a slightly subversive thing, telling stories, when all of my other friends' parents were builders or bank clerks. It's always seemed quite magical to me.
Johnny Flynn /
Dad
Felt
Stories
Subversive
Always Me Parents
Dad Always Me
Dad Me Parents
Actor
Quite
Bank
Builders
Dad Me Always
Parents
Magical
Seem
Slightly
Telling
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I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught.
Johnny Flynn /
Jobs
Caught
Fishing
Ran
Series
Teenager
Village
Wales
West
Fish
Cook
Restaurant
Worked
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I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.
Johnny Flynn /
Music
Listening
Mind Blowing
Slim
Across
Music Live Way
Music Way Listening
Works
Came
First
Crowd
Saw
Off
Him
Incredibly
Infectious
Music Way Live
Lyrics
Pays
Performer
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It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're two heritages that are distinct but also cross over on so many levels.
Johnny Flynn /
Levels
Subtlety
Cross
Distinct
Folk
Many Levels
Traditions
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Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning - there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it's almost like that's the only safe place to express yourself.
Johnny Flynn /
Express Yourself
Inward
Questioning
Unattractive
Westminster
Safe Place
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It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.
Johnny Flynn /
Abstract
Collaborating
Share
Great Music Your
Broader
Music Great Energy
Music Great Your
Group
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I feel really lucky that I somehow have blagged my way into loads of different experiences. I find making a film fascinating, I find making a play amazing, and working with my band and scoring things... it's all really cool. I'm just a glutton for experience, really.
Johnny Flynn /
Amazing
Band
Fascinating
Film
Lucky
Experiences
Loads
Scoring
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When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had to play the violin and do orchestra practice and that sort of stuff. That meant I didn't get to do any school plays. I desperately wanted to do that.
Johnny Flynn /
Orchestra
Violin
Classical
Scholarships
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I think the two are kind of synonymous for me; songwriting is like my form of diary making. It's how I process the world. Without doing that, I feel kind of lost. The characters that I play often come out in the songs and the challenges that they face, albeit in an abstract way.
Johnny Flynn /
Abstract
Songwriting
Albeit
Face Challenges World
Diary
Synonymous
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My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my job; that's my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn't want to let that go.
Johnny Flynn /
Running
Sister
Drama
Younger Sister
Actor
Younger
Brothers
Nights
Craft
Drama School
Older
Older Brothers
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I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. More often than not, it's a reaction to how you feel about something, and if you're sitting down and concentrating on, 'I must write something,' then you can't have a truthful reaction.
Johnny Flynn /
Bits
Bus
Concentrating
Truthful
Incidental
Reaction
Spaces
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It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement.
Johnny Flynn /
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Towns
Forming
Political Statement
Statement
Valid
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If you're trying to do something wholly new, it's hard to fully trust it. But if you use forms that have come before, it lends your music weight and authority. It's also a way to acknowledge that it's not just you who's feeling these things. The emotions are coming through you from a whole history.
Johnny Flynn /
Acknowledge
Authority
Lends
Wholly
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I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you can truly listen to someone, giving them yourself and generosity, you can truly lose yourself in what they're saying. Like, not impose your ideas on what they're saying, but really tune into them.
Johnny Flynn /
Generosity
Giving
Ideas
Noise
Silence
Truest
Away
Impose
Lose
Saying
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I'm not a fan of taking too long in the studio. I always do one vocal take and jump out of the control room, and people push me back in... It's a real turn-off to hear things that are too polished. I feel like I've almost fought for the right to be that kind of musician - we used to be on a major label, and now we're on an indie.
Johnny Flynn /
Polished
Turn Off
Vocal
Long Me People
Fought
Indie
Jump
Major Label
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The thing I find really special in performance is that there is this slightly mystical thing that takes over when you're responding to a crowd and engaging in people's imaginations collectively in a room. I've always thought that one of the most incredible things about being alive is going to see some kind of performance like that.
Johnny Flynn /
Engaging
Mystical
Responding
Collectively
Crowd
Imaginations
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