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

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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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"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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"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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"I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians."

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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 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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"I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians."

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

"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."

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

"Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was."

"It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work."

"I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay."

Exlpore more Mother quotes

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."

"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."

"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."

"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."

"I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive."

"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."

"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."

"My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength."