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

Change, Happen, Show

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.
John Sebastian

True, End, Musical

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

Music, Wish, Tell

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

Good, Strength, Past

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

Happen, Trying, Song

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

Trying, Everybody, Maybe

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

Words, Musicians, Copying

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

Work, Enjoy, Might

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
John Sebastian

Mother, Father, Writer

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.
John Sebastian

Art, Father, Sunday

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

Guy, Summer, Played

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

Girl, Moment, Sometimes

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

Wanted, Idea, Band

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.
John Sebastian

Real, Started, Artists

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

Harmonica, Tape, Tapes

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.
John Sebastian

Said, Playing, Left

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

Successful, Remember, Solo

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Nationality: American

Born: March 17, 1944

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