Scottish - Musician | May 10, 1946 -
I've been vegetarian for many years and only eat fish if I have to.
Donovan
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Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.
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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.
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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.
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I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.
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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.
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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.
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Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.
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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.
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I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.
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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.
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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.
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