John Sebastian Quotes

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

   

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• When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.

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• Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

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• 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.

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

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

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• Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

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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, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

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

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• It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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John Sebastian (17)

Birth:	17th March, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

John Benson Sebastian was born in Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, and for his No. 1 hit in 1976, "Welcome Back". He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. He grew up in Italy and Greenwich Village. His father, John Sebastian was a noted classical harmonica player and his mother, Jane was a radio script writer. He graduated from Blair Academy, a private boarding school in Blairstown, New Jersey in 1962. His albums list shown below: John B. Sebastian, The Four of Us, Tarzana Kid, Welcome Back, The Best Of John Sebastian, Tar Beach, and Satisfied (with David Grisman).

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