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John Sebastian

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"

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Amber Hurdle

"They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days."

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Amber Hurdle

"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."

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Amber Hurdle

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us."

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Amber Hurdle

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

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Amber Hurdle

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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Amber Hurdle

"So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him."

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Amber Hurdle

"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

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"My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer."
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"But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush."
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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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"Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister."
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"It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work."
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"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."
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"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."
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"When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with."
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