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" A microphone has a certain range. It's not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that's a good sound. "

Ry Cooder

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" Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. "

" I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever. "

" I hate films. Films make me sick now, and if something makes me sick, I always back off. "

" People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it. "

" I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say. "

" The world will always love Cuban music, however it changes. "

" People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere. "

" I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. "

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Who

" What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it. "

" After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other. "

" When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice. "

" Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot. "

" I'm a man of peace. "

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Man

Peace

" I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get. "

" I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies. You come here, and you leave all your traditions behind. And since there's no traditions here, you just make one up. "

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" I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy. "

" I went on tour with Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, and the White Family in 2015. It was fantastic. They're all the greatest singers of that country stuff, traditional country up into bluegrass. "

" Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking. "

" I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like. "

" Uncle Dave Macon was a great balladeer and banjo player from the early part of the 19th century... He would take a social problem or something that he was looking at and make up a clever little song about it, you know, in a language everyone understood, a man of the people. "

" With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing. "

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" I love listening to gospel records. "

" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "

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" The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating. "

" I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do. "

" American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact. "

" Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. "

" Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it. "