Donovan Quotes

Donovan

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 10, 1946

I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.

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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.

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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.

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I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older.

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

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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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Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

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I meditate every day and do some hatha yoga every day.

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I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

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Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

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

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I never considered myself an entertainer. I always felt I had to be connected to something meaningful, or it wasn't worth doing.

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The Beatles and I became fast friends.

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Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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