102 Quotes by Donovan

A young person coming up and saying, 'I absolutely love your music,' is very encouraging.

It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.

Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out.

I'm a teacher, but I'm really a healer.

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.

I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too.

Actually, I'm the Scottish Woody Guthrie.

My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in the music industry. But as someone said, 'You'll never be poor as long as you can pick up a guitar.'