Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
Ziggy Marley
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
Haley Reinhart
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
Narada Michael Walden
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
Idris Elba
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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
Olivier Messiaen
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
Yitzhak Navon
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
D'Angelo
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
Babyface
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Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.
Vidya Balan
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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
Oscar Wilde
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[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.
Eddie Condon
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The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
Patrick Ness
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I think there's a part of me that might be my alter ago, like the carefree, do-what-he-wants kind of guy, because I've been so restrained most of my life, going to Catholic school and being the good son and the good husband. It's a fun escape route for me sometimes to lead that life.
Kevin Nealon
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Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual.
Ellen Burstyn
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The soul of Iran incarnate in the body of India.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
