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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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.
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I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.
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The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
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Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
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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.
