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.Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
Malala Yousafzai -
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.
Ian Axel -
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.
M.I.A. -
I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
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.
Edgar Meyer -
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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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.
Dan Aykroyd -
I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts -
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.
Jack Nicholson -
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand -
Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
Karen Salmansohn -
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
Yoko Ono
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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.
M. H. Abrams -
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
Gail Sheehy -
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones -
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.
Laura Mvula -
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
Little Richard -
The center picked the ball up a little bit and we felt like we got it off right when he picked it up, ... We probably looked at it 30 times in there with Danny and I'd say we kind of got right off on it. That could have won it for us.
Joe Gibbs -
It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
Quincy Jones -
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
Sophocles -
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.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks