American - Musician | May 17, 1942 -
I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
Taj Mahal
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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.
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I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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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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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.
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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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I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins.
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Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
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