Top 56 Quotes by Taj Mahal

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

As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.

If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.

I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

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.

As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

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?

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.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.