Henry Saint Clair Fredericks Quotes
-
It is, like the Mona Lisa, one of those masterpieces with which you will be outstandingly familiar long before you ever get to see it...it does not disappoint. It does not disappoint the first time you see it, nor the third time, nor even the 30th time...
-
It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
-
I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
-
I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
-
Its secondary career has been as a symbol of India. The prize piece of Indian heritage, it is seen to embody the country’s celebrated history and civilization...Elevated to the national symbol by outsiders, not until about 1900 was it accepted as such by Indians.
-
I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
-
I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
-
I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
-
As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
-
The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
-
The tomb sits on a large marble platform, called a plinth. At each corner of this platform is a minaret (a tall, narrow tower from which a Muslim calls the devout to prayer). It is this building which is called the Taj Mahal, although the name often refers to the whole complex.
-
I'm a composer, man.
-
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.
-
My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
-
My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
-
As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
-
I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
-
No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
-
When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
-
At the corner of the white marble platform, which is 23 yards above the level of the ground, stand four minarets, also of marble, with interior staircases and capped by cupolas, which are 7 cubits in diameter and rise to a total of 32 cubits from the pavement of the said platform to the filial, appearing as it were, like ladders reaching towards the heavens.
-
An immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife, it is the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.
-
I pretty much move around wherever I like.
-
I've got tons more stuff to do.
-
More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.