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

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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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" 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. "

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" All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s. "

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

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" I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of 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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" As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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