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" 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. "
Donovan
Power
Sales
You
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead. "
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" Some music will make you dance. Other music helps you release tension. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Always
Music
" 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. "
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Me
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Poetry
" Blues and jazz are such a root to music. "
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Root
Blues
" The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter a generation's view. So poets have always been feared - and controlled and jailed. "
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Generation
View
People
" I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion. "
Donovan
Blown
About
Out
" I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger on me. "
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Finger
Hard
Me
" 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. "
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Mind
You
Sleep
" A young person coming up and saying, 'I absolutely love your music,' is very encouraging. "
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Saying
Music
Love
" I'm probably the most successful Celtic bard of my generation, who projected this style and this image and this casketful of magical songs all around the world. "
Donovan
Style
Successful
World
" Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse. "
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Young
Superman
Girl
" The 'Bohemian Manifesto' represents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change. "
Donovan
Create
Become
Society
" Having had polio never held me back as I got older. Although having one leg smaller than the other isn't much fun, I could always get about without any trouble. Luckily, in the music industry, everyone was only interested in my singing and playing and not the size of my legs. "
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Music
Singing
Trouble
" I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older. "
Donovan
You
Grow
Older
" The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really. "
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Fan
Say
Really
" Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized everywhere. But I embraced that. "
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Fame
Life
Personal
" Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation. "
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Desperation
Inspiration
Long
" When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very schooled in poetry, too. He'd studied the Beat poets, of course. I grew up in the British bohemian scene. Dylan grew up in the American bohemian scene. So I was very pleased to meet such a guy. "
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Meet
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" I've been vegetarian for many years and only eat fish if I have to. "
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Only
Vegetarian
Years
" 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. "
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Say
Difficult
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" In my time, we didn't know songs could last. All we ever thought of was next Tuesday. You never imagined a future. "
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Future
Never
Thought
" I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition. "
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Myself
Tradition
Think
" I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience. "
Donovan
America
Able
Audience