27 Quotes by John Sebastian

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of ‘Daydream’ in a lot of elevators.

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

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.