Taj Mahal Quotes

I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

If you're going to go the way of 'American Idol,' then you better be able to do what you want musically, because just going for the fame will only keep you happy for so long.

I just want to keep making music and see where everything goes.

I've been singing most of my life. There's nothing better I could wish to be doing.

I used to have these reoccurring dreams that I played guitar, which I thought was so bizarre. It all sort of fit together at some point, and I said 'I want to play guitar.'

Music is everything to me, and I'm most grateful that it's all working out.

Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.

I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.