John Sebastian quotes

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)
Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister. View quote
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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. View quote
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You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians. View quote
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The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea. View quote
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My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. View quote
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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. View quote
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying. View quote
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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)
To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists. View quote
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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. View quote
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John Sebastian

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Photo: Jim McClear, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Musician
Born: March 17, 1944
Quotes count: 13