Quotes About Heritage

I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

I haven't lost my blues roots.

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

Being raise in England, we were all raised on blues and country.

I was from Scotts Bluff, Neb.

I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.

I don't look at it as Hollywood or Bollywood, but, of course, my roots are here, and at the end of the day, it's about your roots. You can't take India out of me.

Even Bollywood films set in rural areas have music with a western touch. So, this has resulted in listeners losing touch with their cultural roots.

I don't really know anything about my dad. I don't really know too much about his background. He's Jamaican and Jamaicans are usually more athletic. You've seen Usain Bolt.

People would be amazed that I've grown up in Bombay and not Banaras.

I am a Bombay girl.

Bombay always felt home.

I'm country to the bone.

Europe has been in my bones.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.