Before the Spoonful, I had a successful career as an accompanist, and a lot of my contemporaries were starting to have their own success.
- John SebastianIn other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
- John SebastianThe big turning point, really, was the Beatles` influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin` Spoonful and everybody else.
- Barry McGuireIf a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
- Aharon Appelfeld