Henry Saint Clair Fredericks Quotes
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
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Music is like the soul of the planet.
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I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
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Many of the architectural features found in it were first tried out in other buildings, such as the tombs of the emperors Humayun and Akbar.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
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Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
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The building’s beauty is a metaphor for hers Mumtaz Mahal and is thus contemplated as feminine. It is builder's feeling for the woman interred within. What else but passion, they ask, could have inspired something so perfect?
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Every drop of rain that falls in Sahara Desert says it all It's a miracle. All God's creations great and small, the Golden Gate and the Taj Mahal That's a miracle. Test tube babies being born, mothers, fathers dead and gone It's a miracle.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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Its secondary career has been as a symbol of India. The prize piece of Indian heritage, it is seen to embody the country’s celebrated history and civilization...Elevated to the national symbol by outsiders, not until about 1900 was it accepted as such by Indians.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
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I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.