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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started. "

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" Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems. "

" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "

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

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

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

" Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. "

" The ocean is very comfortable. I could never live inland. "

" I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and out, and you didn't labor over the thing. I like music like that. "

" I'm a great lover of ballads. "

" If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Being the front guy is a hard job. "

" I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing. "