Jack Johnson Quotes
Jack Johnson's page delivers crisp, factual snippets about his pioneering boxing win and his laid-back Hawaiian music.
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Jack Johnson (boxer) - (1878-1946), first African-American world heavyweight champion
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Jack Johnson (musician) - (born 1975), Hawaiian surfer, singer-songwriter and documentary filmmaker
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What about your mind, does it shine?
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Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.
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Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.
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You better hope you’re not alone.
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Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it.
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When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.
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There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven...
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The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.
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Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.
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The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.
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Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.
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She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.