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" 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. "

Donovan

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" Blues and jazz are such a root to music. "

" 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. "

" My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa, Billie Holiday - all that stuff was in my background. "

" I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose. "

" My father brought me up to be a socialist. "

Donovan

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" I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience. "

" 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. "

" In my time, we didn't know songs could last. All we ever thought of was next Tuesday. You never imagined a future. "

" I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg. At campus, we were absorbing that stuff. We looked to America. "

" 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. "

" I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside. "

" 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

" With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape. "

" When the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there... There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine. "

" It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you. "

" Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress. "

" All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school. "

" 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. "

Donovan

I Am

Start

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

Donovan

Writer

Duck

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

" Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work. "

" 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. "

" Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created. "

" In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles. "

" I've experimented with so many different sounds, it's difficult to say what the Donovan sound really is, but it's essentially my voice and guitars. "

" The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really. "

" Publishers and record companies love a broken heart. "

" My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres. "