Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.' "

Donovan

Need

Stronger

Place

Related Quotes:

" The planet is alive, and it's a woman. "

" If you have a loved one, you can survive anything. "

" After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running. "

" Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary. "

" Some music will make you dance. Other music helps you release tension. "

" I didn't realise that I was so accomplished on the guitar until someone said to me, 'How do you do that?' That someone was John Lennon. He asked me to teach him my technique. "

Donovan

Said

Someone

" '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. "

" The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways. "

" In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill. "

" My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too. "

" There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way. "

" Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots. "

Donovan

Down

You

" I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17. "

" A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water! "

Donovan

Writer

Duck

" The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor. "

" I found in Rick Rubin a kindred soul. When I visited his home and looked in his library, I saw he was reading the very same New Age books I had picked up the month before. "

" A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted as someone who's following a different path, who's moving into a different mode. "

" What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of humbleness. "

" I already had top 10 records before 'Sunshine Superman,' with 'Catch the Wind' and 'Colors,' but this was a real breakthrough for me. It was a consciousness change for songwriting, as people are now saying I initiated the psychedelic revolution with this album, 'Sunshine Superman.' "

Donovan

Sunshine

Revolution

" The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness. "

" I've been vegetarian for many years and only eat fish if I have to. "

" I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation. "

" 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. "

Donovan

Know

Poetry

" It seems to be very clear that each new generation that comes - not only audiences but young bands as well - are very encouraged and enthused and inspired by my work. "

" I'm a teacher, but I'm really a healer. "

" Publishers and record companies love a broken heart. "

" The Beatles and I became fast friends. "

" The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place. "

" Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance. "

" I think my legacy is important because my songs - perhaps more than those of any other songwriter I know - cover every movement from 1965 on, socially and artistically. If you want songs about ecology, I've got ecology songs; if you want songs about spirituality, I've got spiritual songs. "