Johnny Christ Quotes

I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.

My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.

If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.

All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career.

I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I don't know if I'm necessarily a role model, but hopefully I can inspire any artist - Latin or otherwise - to do this thing for a living.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

I would be very wrong to charge anyone to watch me dance or sing.

I never in my life saw myself as a game show host. I don't want to be a traffic cop.