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

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" What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Music is like the soul of the planet. "

" I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit. "

" 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. "