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" I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist. "
Taj Mahal
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" If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again. "
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" I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language. "
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" As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today. "
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" When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music. "
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" 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.' "
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" The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that. "
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Song
" I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean. "
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" 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. "
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" My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences. "
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" Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family. "
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Children
Family
" I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit. "
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Long
Time
Look
" I pretty much move around wherever I like. "
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Wherever
Pretty
" When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie. "
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Everything
Messing
" The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable. "
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Thing
Always
One Thing
" I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency. "
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Trap
Want
Complacency
" In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was. "
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World
Look
Looking
" I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically. "
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Like
Doing
Musically
" I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins. "
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College
Would
Getting
" I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music. "
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Explore
Music
Connections
" I enjoy music wherever it's coming from. "
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Coming
Music
Wherever
" I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing. "
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Know
Care
You
" Music is like the soul of the planet. "
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Soul
Planet
Music
" I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing. "
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Doing
Up
Think
" I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play. "
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People
Nice
Music
" 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. "
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Brother
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" My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective. "
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Perspective
Global
" My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance. "
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Parents
Up
Grew
" The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues. "
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Place
" I've got tons more stuff to do. "
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