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Johnny Carson

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Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

    Author: Dick Ebersol
   

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

    Author: Doc Severinsen
   

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

    Author: Jim Fowler
   

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

    Author: Jim Fowler
   

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

    Author: Natalie Merchant
   

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

    Author: Tom Leykis
   

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.

    Author: Tony Randall
   

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

    Author: Victoria Jackson
   

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But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

    Author: Alan Vega
   

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

    Author: Alexis Korner
   

I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.

    Author: Anne Campbell
   

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

    Author: Barbara Mandrell
   

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

    Author: Bob Lilly
   

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

    Author: Brian Setzer
   

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.

    Author: Burt Reynolds
   

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

    Author: Carson Daly
   

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it.

    Author: Carson Kressley
   

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

    Author: Dave Navarro
   

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

    Author: Don Van Vliet
   

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

    Author: Ed McMahon
   

When I did it with Johnny, it was almost a telepathic kind of communication.

    Author: Edgar Winter
   

Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

    Author: Etta James
   

You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

    Author: Garry Shandling
   

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

    Author: Gavin Rossdale
   

Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.

    Author: Gilbert Gottfried
   

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

    Author: Iris Dement
   

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

    Author: James Young
   

The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there.

    Author: Jerry Only
   

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

    Author: Jhonen Vasquez
   

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

    Author: Jhonen Vasquez
   

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

    Author: Jhonen Vasquez
   

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

    Author: Jim Capaldi
   

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.

    Author: Jimmy Griffin
   

I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

    Author: John Abercrombie
   

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

    Author: Johnny Cash
   

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

    Author: Johnny Winter
   

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

    Author: Joseph Barbera
   

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.

    Author: June Carter Cash
   

I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.

    Author: June Carter Cash
   

It depends on how Johnny's feeling... If we go back on the road, we will go together. I'll go where he goes, and he'll go where I go.

    Author: June Carter Cash
   

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

    Author: Kate Moss
   

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

    Author: Kid Rock
   

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

    Author: Kris Kristofferson
   

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.

    Author: Margaret Whiting
   

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

    Author: Merle Haggard
   

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

    Author: Noah Taylor
   

You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.

    Author: Oliver Platt
   

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

    Author: Orlando Bloom
   

Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.

    Author: Penelope Cruz
   

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers.

    Author: Penelope Spheeris
   

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

    Author: Peter Steele
   

I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

    Author: Rachel Perry
   

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

    Author: Randy West
   

Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.

    Author: Randy West
   

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

    Author: Randy West
   

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.

    Author: Randy West
   

That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!

    Author: Randy West
   

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

    Author: Reese Witherspoon
   

I think the hardest to replace has been Johnny Collins. He was great to play with. You could always rely on him to be available for a short pass, allowing you time to clear a ball. He would never give the ball away.

    Author: Richard Gough
   

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

    Author: Rick Derringer
   

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

    Author: Rick Derringer
   

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.

    Author: Rick Derringer
   

The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it.

    Author: Rick Derringer
   

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

    Author: Rick Derringer
   

We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do.

    Author: Rick Derringer
   

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

    Author: Ritchie Blackmore
   

I thought it would be a lot of fun and I wasn't going to do the movie without Johnny. The studio suggested a couple people, and I'd never met Johnny, but I thought we'd be a perfect team for this movie because we're both a little bit unpredictable.

    Author: Sean William Scott
   

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

    Author: Seth MacFarlane
   

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

    Author: Shelby Lynne
   

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

    Author: Sparky Anderson
   

Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.

    Author: Suzanne Fields
   

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

    Author: Tara Reid
   

After The Ventures I dug Johnny Smith quite a bit.

    Author: Terry Kath
   

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

    Author: Thomas Sowell
   

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

    Author: Ville Valo
   

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

    Author: Wade Boggs
   

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

    Author: Waylon Jennings
   

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

    Author: Wayne Allard
   

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

    Author: William H. Macy
   

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

    Author: Winona Ryder
   

We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart.

    Author: Wynonna Judd
   

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