Quotes by Donovan - Page 2

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.
Donovan /
Art School
Photographs
Expand
Till
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It's not like me and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr hang out every week, but we keep together in promoting Transcendental Meditation.
Donovan /
Meditation
Promoting
Ringo
Transcendental
Hang
Mccartney
Paul
Paul Mccartney
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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.
Donovan /
Bohemia
Cooks
Useless
Consider
Ineffective
Shun
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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.
Donovan /
Broke
Generations
Younger Generations
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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.
Donovan /
Different Sounds
Guitars
Essentially
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Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.
Donovan /
Bohemia
Dogma
Downfall
Ignorance
Plot
Artists
Somewhere
Escape
Gather
Runs
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'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music as well as poetry.
Donovan /
Celtic
First Time
Fusion
Indian
Indian Music
Jazz
Pioneering
Sunshine
Work Time Poetry
Folk
Rock
Presented
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Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out.
Donovan /
Chill
Fame
Our Generation
Generation
Surely
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When I was a boy, I had a grand, big tape recorder, and I made late-night radio shows with glasses of water and funny voices. I just loved radio plays.
Donovan /
Glasses
Late Night
Radio
Tape
Water
Boy
Loved
Grand
Plays
Radio Shows
Recorder
Tape Recorder
Voices
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What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of humbleness.
Donovan /
Ceremony
Civilization
Discipline
Lacking
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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 /
Cents
Plastic
Covers
Record Sales
Sales
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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.
Donovan /
Poetic
Background
Influences
Oral
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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 /
Celtic
My Generation
Magical
Projected
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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.
Donovan /
Extraordinary
Greek
Islands
Yacht
Bought
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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.
Donovan /
Awards
Pointing
Regard
Honors
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I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got an Ivor Novella Award for my very first song.
Donovan /
Fame
Jimmy
Maverick
Mojo
Rock And Roll
Song
Award
Gave
Hall
Rock
Page
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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 /
Finish
Phrase
Skilled
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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.
Donovan /
New Generation
Audiences
Encouraged
Enthused
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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.
Donovan /
Famous
Bohemian
Glasgow
Poetic
Later
Uncle
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Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary.
Donovan /
Horrible
Loneliness
Spiritual Path
Celebrities
Meditations
Suffer
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I found in Rick Rubin a kindred soul. When I visited his home and looked in his library, I saw he was reading the very same New Age books I had picked up the month before.
Donovan /
New Age
Reading
Month
Books
Saw
Looked
Picked
Rick
Visited
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I didn't realise that I was so accomplished on the guitar until someone said to me, 'How do you do that?' That someone was John Lennon. He asked me to teach him my technique.
Donovan /
Accomplished
Lennon
Teach
Technique
Asked
John
Realise
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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.
Donovan /
Loses
Personal Life
Embraced
Recognized
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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.
Donovan /
Hard Rock
Popular Music
Genres
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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.
Donovan /
Introspection
Profound
Sleep
Rest
Leads
Listener
Sing
Trigger
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Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.
Donovan /
Attitude
Art School
Enjoyed
Great Music
Stones
Art Great Music
Coming
Image
Projecting
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Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever. We are in the Chinese astrology of dogs, and we are forever snapping at each other.
Donovan /
Astrology
Chinese
Forever
Dogs
Engage
Loves
Linda
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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.
Donovan /
Campus
Vinyl
Woody
Absorb
Allen
Beat
Michael
Guthrie
Jack
Looked
Poets
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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.
Donovan /
Certain
Controlled
Ideas
Phrases
Two
Voice
Always View People
Alter
Feared
Generation
Jailed
Poem
Presents
View
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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.
Donovan /
Frank
Holiday
Background
Gene
Sinatra
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I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too.
Donovan /
Attached
Mixed
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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 /
Society
Bohemian
Actual
Create
Join
Manifesto
Possibilities
Step
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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.
Donovan /
Accepted
Another Time
Following
Homeland
Path
Recognition
Zone
Different Path
Mode
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The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place.
Donovan /
Yoga
Austerity
Isolation
Meditating
Mystic
Solo
Chose
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I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.
Donovan /
Baroque
Bebop
Enormous
Indian Music
Miles
Absorb
Music World Jazz
Davis
Blues
Folk
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My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in the music industry. But as someone said, 'You'll never be poor as long as you can pick up a guitar.'
Donovan /
Millions
Music Industry
Stolen
Pick
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'Superman' had nothing to do with the superhero or physical power. It's a reference to the book 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra,' by Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote about the evolution of consciousness to reach a higher superman state.
Donovan /
Book
Consciousness
Evolution
Higher
Superhero
Nietzsche
Physical
Reach
Reference
Spoke
Thus
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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.
Donovan /
Appeared
Awhile
Outer
Partying
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In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.
Donovan /
Bohemia
Garden
Modern Art
Immersed
Included
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Part of being a pop star is image. I'm told by many of my female fans that I was the poster on their bedroom walls. But if I only had that - the image and the beauty and the curly locks - I would have been a 'normal' pop star, one who comes and goes after one hit record.
Donovan /
Beauty
Bedroom
Fans
Female
Locks
Normal
After
Hit
Star
Curly
Goes
Hit Record
Image
Record
Pop Star
Poster
Walls
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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.
Donovan /
Industry
Legs
Music Industry
Polio
Singing
Size
Trouble
Music Always Me
Music Me Fun
Although
Interested
Older
Held
Leg
Luckily
Smaller
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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.
Donovan /
Enormous
Epic
Humankind
Leaving
Mystical
Particular
Wonder
Condition
Love Songs
Meeting
Occasion
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I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.'
Donovan /
Dance
Guitarist
Nails
Okay
Plastic
Strange
Strings
Yeah
Younger
Guys
Salon
Says
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I already had top 10 records before 'Sunshine Superman,' with 'Catch the Wind' and 'Colors,' but this was a real breakthrough for me. It was a consciousness change for songwriting, as people are now saying I initiated the psychedelic revolution with this album, 'Sunshine Superman.'
Donovan /
Breakthrough
Consciousness
Psychedelic
Records
Revolution
Songwriting
Sunshine
Wind
Album
Catch
Colors
Initiated
Superman
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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 /
Ecology
Legacy
Movement
Spiritual
Spirituality
Cover
Perhaps
Socially
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I first met Linda Lawrence in March 1965 in the green room of 'Ready Steady Go!,' the British pop TV show. Linda was a friend of one of the co-hosts. She had an art-school vibe, and after a brief conversation, I asked her to dance to a soul record playing. As we jazz danced, I fell in love.
Donovan /
Dance
Conversation
Green
Jazz
March
Ready
Soul
Steady
Tv
After
Asked
Show
Brief
Friend
Her
Record
Lawrence
Linda
Met
Room
She
Tv Show
Vibe
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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.
Donovan /
Anger
Discontent
Fine
Frustration
Love Is
Peace And Love
Social
Love Peace Love Is
Within
Came
Career
Closely
Typecast
Singer
Looked
The Who
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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.
Donovan /
Bob
Bohemian
British
Dylan
Impressed
Scene
Studied
Beat
Bob Dylan
Definitely
Folk
Meet
Met
Pleased
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