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I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was a kind of a poetic bohemian, and he read me poetry.

~Donovan

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Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

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I already had top 10 records before 'Sunshine Superman,' with 'Catch the Wind' and 'Colors,' but this was a real breakthrough for me. It was a consciousness change for songwriting, as people are now saying I initiated the psychedelic revolution with this album, 'Sunshine Superman.'

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I first met Linda Lawrence in March 1965 in the green room of 'Ready Steady Go!,' the British pop TV show. Linda was a friend of one of the co-hosts. She had an art-school vibe, and after a brief conversation, I asked her to dance to a soul record playing. As we jazz danced, I fell in love.

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My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.

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Publishers and record companies love a broken heart.

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Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

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Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

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

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On the outskirts of the desert in Yemen, there was a cafe with a jukebox that had 'Sunshine Superman' on it. I loved that.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Musician

Born: May 10th, 1946

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