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

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" Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done. "

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

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

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

" That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it's magic! "

" I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world. "

" When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out. "

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

" How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's good to see more young people playing instruments. "

" 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. "

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" The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing. "

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

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