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

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" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that. "

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

" The world will always love Cuban music, however it changes. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies. You come here, and you leave all your traditions behind. And since there's no traditions here, you just make one up. "

" All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing. "

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

" I went on tour with Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, and the White Family in 2015. It was fantastic. They're all the greatest singers of that country stuff, traditional country up into bluegrass. "

" 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. "

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

" If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing. "

" Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something. "

" American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact. "

" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "

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

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

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

" The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always think of it as family music, really, because families sang it. "

" The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating. "

" 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. "