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John Sebastian

"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."

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"In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying."

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"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."

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"Our parents were musicians."

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"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."
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"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
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"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
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