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" On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you go.' It's like a magic carpet, see? "

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" I'm a man of peace. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand. "

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

" I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. "

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

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

" I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things. "

" 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. "

" Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated. "

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

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

" 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?' "

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

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

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

" I always like spoken word records. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a great lover of ballads. "

" Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance. "

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

" 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! "