John Sebastian Quotations

We found our heaviest users were using it every day all over their house, whether there was an odor problem or not.

We were trying for that very hard, but part of the credit is due to Eric Jacobson, whose real talents as a producer were considerable and still are.

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.

I get everything form what you might expect like a club date to the city of Boston inviting me to do a concert during the Tall Ships Ceremony.

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.

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

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

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

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

Before the Spoonful, I had a successful career as an accompanist, and a lot of my contemporaries were starting to have their own success.

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

...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !...

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.