Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
