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" People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere. "

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

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

" If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar. "

" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "

" Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.' "

" 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. "

" 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 always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like. "

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

" Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. "

" 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. "

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

" It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I was little, 4 or 5 years old, the first guitar I had was given to me by a blacklisted violinist - a lefty, commie guy, pinko man. "