- Convinced
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing and the kind of profound rest you cannot get from sleep alone.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was a kind of a poetic bohemian, and he read me poetry.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father brought me up to be a socialist.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, I had a grand, big tape recorder, and I made late-night radio shows with glasses of water and funny voices. I just loved radio plays.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went on the Andy Williams show, the Smothers Brothers show, and maybe I shouldn't have. But regrets - I don't think I have any.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first met Linda Lawrence in March 1965 in the green room of 'Ready Steady Go!,' the British pop TV show. Linda was a friend of one of the co-hosts. She had an art-school vibe, and after a brief conversation, I asked her to dance to a soul record playing. As we jazz danced, I fell in love.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Superman' had nothing to do with the superhero or physical power. It's a reference to the book 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra,' by Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote about the evolution of consciousness to reach a higher superman state.
- Bass
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- Nov 07, 2020
My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
- Naive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020