American - Musician | May 17, 1942 -
I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
Taj Mahal
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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.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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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.
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I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
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If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?
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