57 Quotes by Taj Mahal

It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.

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.

Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.

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.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.

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

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.