Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.
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I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
