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

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

John Sebastian

#Musician Quotes #Copying Quotes

“I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.”

Source : "Earth Democracy - an interview with Vandana Shiva". Interview with Sarah Ruth van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. December 31, 2002.
“What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."”
“Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh. Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh.”
“Just remember...you are the one with everything to lose.”
“Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.”
“There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken.”

Source : "Fashion and creativity". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.
“Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.”
“I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times.”

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