Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
Quotes to Explore
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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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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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
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Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.
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Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.
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I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here.
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At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.
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The sun is new each day.
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My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
