John Sebastian famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Girl #Kissing #Sometimes
...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !...
-- John Sebastian

#Music #Ducks #Jugs
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
I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators.
-- John Sebastian

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

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

#Ideas #Jugs #Band
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
-- John Sebastian

#Mother #Father #Musician
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
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
You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
-- John Sebastian

#Successful #Remember #Solo

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