John Sebastian Quotes
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I love cooking and baking.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.
