43 Quotes by Johnny Mercer

... could tell you a lot, but you've gotta be true to the code. Make it one for my baby and one more for the road.

It wasn't that I was lazy- I was a bloody hard worker- I just found concentrating on one thing particularly difficult when I had such mammoth internal battles going on. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. Only when I was physically exhausted did I seem to manage a modicum of internal peace, when my mind would stop ticking over. I needed to try and get to grips with it all. There was a very little awareness about 'mental health' in those days. I just felt like I was mad,

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you come rain or come shine.

That old black magic has me in its spell.

Johnny felt his greatest gift as a songwriter was the ability to catch the mood of a tune.

We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, / Like a child at play.

There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly...Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.