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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road. "

" I pretty much move around wherever I like. "

" When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie. "

" I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music. "

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

" 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. "

" I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Music is like the soul of the planet. "

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

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

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