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“I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.”

Source : "Hugh Masekela: Songs of freedom". Interview with Tony Wende, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2009.
“I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.”
“When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!”
“'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.”
“Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2010.
“Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.”

Source : Song: Against The Wind, Album: Against the Wind, 1980
“Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.”

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