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" The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues. "
Taj Mahal
Blues
Been
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" 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. "
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" Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit. "
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" As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer. "
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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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" When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music. "
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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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Looking
" 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. "
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Beat
" 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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Saying
Music
" 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. "
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Done
" I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist. "
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" I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean. "
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Africa
Caribbean
" 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.' "
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My Life
Down
" I enjoy music wherever it's coming from. "
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Wherever
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