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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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.
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They brought me in and told me they were probably going to pick the option up. You always want to earn whatever you get. I take a lot pride in that. He didn't have to bring me in today. I appreciate that. When I was a free agent, a lot of teams called and I really didn't answer. There was only one place, and that still remains the same. I don't want to play for nobody else but the Yankees.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
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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.
