Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
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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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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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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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
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I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
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I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.
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Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.
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I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.
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If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.
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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.
