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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.
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Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
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First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden is going to be OK.
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I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.
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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.
