John Sebastian Quotes

• But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

  John Sebastian

  Couple, Guitar, Clothes

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• I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

  John Sebastian

  Past, Thinking, Musician

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• The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

  John Sebastian

  Ideas, Jugs, Band

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• My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

  John Sebastian

  Mother, Father, Musician

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

  John Sebastian

  Sister, Girl, Kissing

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• I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

  John Sebastian

  Song, Style, Trying

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• I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

  John Sebastian

  Daydreaming, Elevators, Unlimited

  Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. March 5, 2000.

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• First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.

  John Sebastian

  Thinking, Musical, Musician

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

  John Sebastian

  Successful, Remember, Solo

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

  John Sebastian

  Musician, Copying, Knows

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

  John Sebastian

  Art, Father, Educational

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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• I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.

  John Sebastian

  Guitar, Guy, Trying

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• Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.

  John Sebastian

  Hair, Police, Wish

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