Taj Mahal quote: "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

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.
RICKY NELSON

I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention ...
DARON MALAKIAN

I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store an...
LES CLAYPOOL

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presentl...
DEV HYNES

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I've been making music for a long time, but I've been waiting to do it right, because I don&...
EVAN ROSS

I like giving music-themed gifts. I've given a couple of music documentaries to boys. Especially...
BELLA HEATHCOTE

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I'...
MAYA ANGELOU

In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of...
J. D. SOUTHER

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never re...
GARRET DILLAHUNT

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
P. J. HARVEY

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel p...
JACK BLACK

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused...
HOWIE MANDEL

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blu...
BUDDY GUY

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.
MOHSIN HAMID

It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bl...
RICKY SKAGGS

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. ...
ERIC DAVIS

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, eit...
BRIAN ENO

I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the ...
CALVIN KLEIN

I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want ...
SAUL LEITER

I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I...
HUNTER HAYES

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. O...
ANDREW ELDRITCH

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old...
GINNIFER GOODWIN

I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the w...
CASSIE VENTURA

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' b...
JHENE AIKO

I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to c...
CAITLIN ROSE

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS

You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't peop...
JERRY LEWIS

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO

I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lin...
JAY-Z

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't kno...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the doug...
AIMEE MANN

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna ...
NAOMI WATTS

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
ADAM JONES

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join ...
LARS VON TRIER

I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I...
TED CRUZ

I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the musi...
RAEKWON

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I...
WARREN ZEVON

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVIS

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't wo...
LUPE FIASCO

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of...
ART BLAKEY

I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.
SHANE WARNE

I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in ...
BOB UECKER

One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be su...
BONNIE RAITT

I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doin...
G-EAZY

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I ha...
MARTIN GORE

The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my ...
SCOTT STAPP

I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.
LARRY WILCOX

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS

I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i...
LEA MICHELE

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they...
WALTER F. MONDALE

Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is...
ICE CUBE

The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity...
JOSH KLINGHOFFER

I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don'...
SIA

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienc...
ADAM LAMBERT

I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. An...
AVICII

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I go...
EMMANUELLE BEART

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don'...
AVRIL LAVIGNE

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and the...
TAIO CRUZ

Everyone's been through hell to get where they are, and I'm not gonna let anybody talk down ...
ROMAN REIGNS

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a pers...
CHRIS BROWN

When 'Sex and the City' aired its first season, people didn't know about HBO as a place ...
DARREN STAR

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was...
MARTINA MCBRIDE

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don...
GARY NEVILLE

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta...
A. R. RAHMAN

To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny vi...
PSY

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify mus...
YANNI

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good...
JOHN MILIUS

I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to s...
JACK LOWDEN

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
GARY NUMAN

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a...
OSCAR ISAAC

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boob...
KATY PERRY

I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don'...
NEON HITCH

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i...
PAT METHENY

I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the begi...
MARTHA PLIMPTON

I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there&#...
TRISTAN WILDS

I think when you're a fan of music - at least the way I've been a fan to artists that have r...
MATISYAHU

For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists t...
ALAN JACKSON

In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smar...
EUGENE LEVY

I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a mela...
NORAH JONES

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they ...
FREDDIE MERCURY

I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my...
LACEY CHABERT

In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm try...
FLORENTIJN HOFMAN

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and mont...
PHIL ANSELMO

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rappin...
NINA SIMONE

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think...
BEAR BRYANT

I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'...
AARON TVEIT

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after di...
WILL.I.AM

I've gone through many phases in music in my life. Before I was signed, I was making completely ...
CHARLIE PUTH

I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ni...
TARAN KILLAM

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'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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