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. -
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga
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And I'd like to say this to Sir James Goldsmith.......who has got nothing to be smug about, and I would like to say that 1,500 votes is a derisory total. We have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and Sir James can get off back to Mexico knowing your attempt to buy the British political system has failed.
David Mellor -
The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organiĀzation is the province of economists. InterĀnal organization is the concern of organization theory specialist. And never the twain shall meet.
Oliver E. Williamson -
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
J. Anthony Lukas -
Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.
Haruki Murakami -
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