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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

Audience, Happen, Couple, Toothbrush

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

Own, Part, Extent, Businessmen

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

Song, Top Ten, Certainly, Theme Song

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

Okay, Everybody, Using, Guitars

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

Think, Some, I Think, Viable

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

- John Sebastian

Doing, Other, Going, Spoonful

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

- John Sebastian

Sometimes, Dig, Then, Distracted

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

- John Sebastian

Band, Idea, Wanted, Jug

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

Tell, Influenced, Evidence, Surprised

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

- John Sebastian

Harmonica, Tapes, Tape, Instruction

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

- John Sebastian

Remember, Now, Going, Solo

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

- John Sebastian

Strength, Think, I Think, Stead

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

Some, Studio, Move, Move On

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

- John Sebastian

Mother, Father, Classical, Musician

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

Art, Play, Equivalent, Variety

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

- John Sebastian

Concert, Now, Guy, Summer

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

- John Sebastian

Work, Kind, Might, Theatrical

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