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" Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. "

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" People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll say, 'Well, how about any of my other recent records. I've been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?' And they go, 'Huh?' "

" The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that. "

" I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that. "

" I love listening to gospel records. "

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

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

" I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining. "

" 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. "

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

" I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people. "

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

" You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done. "

" I don't like being watched, and I don't like being an entertainer. "

" I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it. "

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

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

" If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need. "

" 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. "

" I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible. "

" 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. "

" Being the front guy is a hard job. "

" Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten. "

" 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. "

" Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels. "

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

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

" It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since. "

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

" If it hadn't been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would've been unbelievably dull, and I would've been sacking groceries somewhere and probably, at this point, running a little 7-Eleven down by the airport. "