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Donovan Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: May 10, 1946

Topics

America Vinyl Beat Stuff Campus

To sell out London's Hammersmith Apollo is amazing. Selling it out for two nights? Even better.

Joe Bonamassa

Amazing Better Selling London Out

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

Andrea Corr

Love World Reality Smell I Love

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

Robert Harris

People Think You Find Manager Write

New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.

Tom Golisano

New York Long Election New Us Laws

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

Rod Stewart

Business Day Insecurity Wake Up You

With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does.

Ron Chernow

Change Writing You Will Something

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Time Woman Trouble Young Will Old

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Dee Hock

Power People Small Ego Understanding

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

Clint Eastwood

Music Great Bird Adventure People

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

Bono

Live World You Where Should Whether

They say that our sense of smell is one of the strongest triggers of memories. Of course, our sense of smell is integral to our sense of taste, so it is no surprise, then, that in a life full of moving and traveling, food has always been a source of familiar comfort for me.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Life Memories Food Me Moving Say

It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people have a pre-conceived idea, like it's just Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. But really, there's so much culture, the music's great, the food's great. It's not good for the waistline! But I'm actually from the South, I'm from Georgia, so the weather doesn't bother me.

Sung Kang

Good Music Great Food Culture Me