Donovan
Musician
1946-05-10
Quotes by Donovan
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You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.
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You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.
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Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.
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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.
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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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When the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there... There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine.
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It's not like me and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr hang out every week, but we keep together in promoting Transcendental Meditation.
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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.
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I've been vegetarian for many years and only eat fish if I have to.
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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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The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.
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In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles.
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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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