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" I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. "

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" I always sang harmony with my family growing up. "

" People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong. "

" I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful. "

" Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I have to put in ABC, and usually I don't have to put in ABC. "

" To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming. "

" I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic. "

" It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know. "

" The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know? "

" Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public. "

" I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes. "

" I grew up in Arizona. I love it. I'm a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I'm from the Sonoran Desert, which is - extends to both sides of the border. I'm really from that part of Mexico, also. And I hate that there's a fence, you know, running through it. "

" I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play. "

" Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways. "

" The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream. "

" You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down. "

" I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like. "

" I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris. "

" The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere. "

" The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically. "

" I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers. "

" The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person. "

" The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself. "

" Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing. "

" I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization. "

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" Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing. "

" I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do. "

" I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain. "

" I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me. "