Author: Donovan

Quotes

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

- Donovan

I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.

I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.

- Donovan

When I was a boy, I had a grand, big tape recorder, and I made late-night radio shows with glasses of water and funny voices. I just loved radio plays.

When I was a boy, I had a grand, big tape recorder, and I made late-night radio shows with glasses of water and funny voices. I just loved radio plays.

- Donovan

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose.

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose.

- Donovan

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition.

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition.

- Donovan

Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized everywhere. But I embraced that.

Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized everywhere. But I embraced that.

- Donovan

My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres.

My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres.

- Donovan

It seems to be very clear that each new generation that comes - not only audiences but young bands as well - are very encouraged and enthused and inspired by my work.

It seems to be very clear that each new generation that comes - not only audiences but young bands as well - are very encouraged and enthused and inspired by my work.

- Donovan

All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school.

All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school.

- Donovan

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