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" My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance. "

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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. "

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

" I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household. "

" American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without. "

" Music is like the soul of the planet. "

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

" Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" I'm a composer, man. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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