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" If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know? "

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" It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own. "

Taj Mahal

Good

Saying

Music

" I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play. "

" Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit. "

" 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. "

Taj Mahal

Time

Child

" 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 base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music. "

" My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation. "

" It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better. "

" I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically. "

Taj Mahal

Doing

Musically

" I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking. "

" I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency. "

" I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in. "

" I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins. "

" When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music. "

" I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist. "

" 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 don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs. "

" My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective. "

" I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing. "

Taj Mahal

Doing

Think

" As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer. "

" 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. "

" What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity. "

" I enjoy music wherever it's coming from. "

" I've got tons more stuff to do. "

Taj Mahal

Tons

Stuff

" 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. "

" Music is like the soul of the planet. "

" 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. "

" Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old. "

" 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. "

" The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues. "