Quotes by John Sebastian

About John Sebastian:

John Benson Sebastian is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonicist, and autoharpist. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000; for his impromptu appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969, and for his #1 hit in 1976, "Welcome Back".
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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

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

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

John Sebastian

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

John Sebastian

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

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

Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

John Sebastian

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 star...

John Sebastian

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

John Sebastian

Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

John Sebastian

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

John Sebastian

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

John Sebastian

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

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

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

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 t...

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It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.

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Author Bio

  • NameJohn Sebastian
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornMarch 17, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer-songwriter; Composer