The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways. — Donovan Copy Share Image
Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse. — Donovan Copy Share Image
I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17. — Donovan Copy Share Image
I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation. — Donovan Copy Share Image
Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of… — Donovan Copy Share Image
The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor. — Donovan Copy Share Image
It's not like me and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr hang out every week, but we keep together in promoting Transcendental Meditation. — Donovan Copy Share Image
With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape. — Donovan Copy Share Image
I think my legacy is important because my songs - perhaps more than those of any other songwriter I know - cover… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out… — Donovan Copy Share Image
The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing… — Donovan Copy Share Image
It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother.… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was… — Donovan Copy Share Image
My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey,… — Donovan Copy Share Image
When the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and… — Donovan Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation. — Donovan Copy Share Image
In my time, we didn't know songs could last. All we ever thought of was next Tuesday. You never imagined a future. — Donovan Copy Share Image
I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award.… — Donovan Copy Share Image
Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential. — Donovan Copy Share
I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger on me. — Donovan Copy Share
I found in Rick Rubin a kindred soul. When I visited his home and looked in his library, I saw he was reading the… — Donovan Copy Share
I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic… — Donovan Copy Share
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… — Donovan Copy Share
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… — Donovan Copy Share
Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path… — Donovan Copy Share
I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately… — Donovan Copy Share
The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways. — Donovan Copy Share
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… — Donovan Copy Share
'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… — Donovan Copy Share
