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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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'm a great lover of ballads. "

" 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. "

" To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird. "

" I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one. "