John Sebastian Quotes

"Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Kiss, Sister)

"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Idea)

"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Artists, Error, Ownership, Publishing)

"Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes."
- John Sebastian

"When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with."
- John Sebastian
(Related: People)

"But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Change, Manager, Clothes, Road)

"My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Art, Father, Play, Television, Variety)

"You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Successful, Being, Now)

"It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Work)

"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Musicians, Words)

"I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Hearing, Sound, Trying)

"I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Company, Song, Style, Television, Trying)

"I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Strength, Musicians, Past)

"My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Mother, Father, Writer)

"First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on."
- John Sebastian
(Related: End, First)

"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Music, Hair, Police)