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" People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory. "

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

" 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. "

" Country hillbilly music I love. Always have. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible. "

" Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it. "

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

" I wanted to be a car pinstriper, but there was nobody to teach me how to do it. So I said, 'Music's good too. I'll do that maybe, since I can't work out how to do this pinstriping.' "

" 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. "

" People respond to any good you can do in music. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" To me, the Internet is a big scam. "

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

" 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. "

" The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose. "

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

" 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? "

" I can't help what people write or think. If somebody thinks I'm a serious archivist, they're wrong. That's been a problem. It's a shame people take that attitude, because it affects how they listen to the music. It's a big mistake to treat any pop music that way. "