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Donovan

Scottish Musician

Born: May 10, 1946

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A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water! Donovan

Water Pen Would Would-Be Writer Like Like A Duck Without Duck

Publishers and record companies love a broken heart. Donovan

Love Broken Heart Broken Heart Record Record Companies Companies Publishers

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

Work Desperation Long Tremendous Bit Inspiration Songwriting Burst Then

I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.' Donovan

Strange Sometimes Dance Guitarist Girl Stronger Say Strings Says Okay Guys Nails Over Built Yeah Were Up Salon Get Done Place Younger Then Plastic Now Four Need

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

Cafe Sunshine Superman Had Yemen Loved Desert

Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary. Donovan

Loneliness Spiritual Path Fans Meditations Though Horrible Spiritual Path Because Doing Celebrities Realized Even Suffer Necessary Started Millions

What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of humbleness. Donovan

Discipline Our Civilization Tradition Lacking Which Ceremony Actually Need Needed

I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion. Donovan

Love Death Marriage Song Love Songs Every Enormous Meeting Pretty About Mystical Songs Particular Occasion Got Leaving Condition Wonder Children Epic Much Amount Humankind

I can't help it: when something strikes me, I write it down. Donovan

Me Down Strikes Something Write Help

My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in the music industry. But as someone said, 'You'll never be poor as long as you can pick up a guitar.' Donovan

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside. 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. Donovan

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.' 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. Donovan

Life You Before Personal Life Everywhere Recognized Embraced Had Became Came Loses Been Fame Personal Then Really

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In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture. Donovan

Culture Circles Poetry Missing Were Very Bohemian Popular Popular Culture Aware

Part of being a pop star is image. I'm told by many of my female fans that I was the poster on their bedroom walls. But if I only had that - the image and the beauty and the curly locks - I would have been a 'normal' pop star, one who comes and goes after one hit record. Donovan

Walls Fans Beauty Locks Would One-Hit Poster Record Only Had Part Female Bedroom Been Normal Hit Hit Record Goes Curly Being After Pop Pop Star Who Many Star Image

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s. Donovan

Attitude Music Art Great Beatles School Style Sense Lyrics Projecting Great Music Had Great Sense Coming Art School Did Stones Enjoyed Image

The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness. Donovan

Try Important Important Things Say Write Songs Lightness Sing Things

The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing and the kind of profound rest you cannot get from sleep alone. Donovan

Alone You Mind Rest State Way Kind Introspection Trigger Songs Leads Sing Get Listener Cannot Place Profound Sleep

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