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" 'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score. "

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" 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. "

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" I always like spoken word records. "

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" 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. "

" Who does this, at age 71, try to put a tour together from scratch? I have to say it's scary at times. But I like a challenge 'cause it keeps you on your toes. "

" It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time. "

" If you're white working with non-white people, you will be branded as a colonialist by some people, regardless of your efforts or intentions. "

" I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion. "

" I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make. "

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" Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no ambience, no real resonance. "

" Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird. "

" You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living. "

" Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway. "

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

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

" People respond to any good you can do in music. "

" 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 give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be. "

" 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. "

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

" Santa Monica, where I have always lived, is not a town where you will find storefront Church of God in Christ churches. So, the whole idea of gospel quartet singing is something I never knew existed until I began to hear it on record. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing. "

" To me, the Internet is a big scam. "

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" Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. "