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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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"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."

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"When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing."

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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

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