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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

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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 wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.

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• ‟ I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.

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

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• ‟ All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ Music is like the soul of the planet.

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

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

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• ‟ 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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