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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" I've done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi's and Molson Beer. You wouldn't know it. But some of it's damn good. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Country hillbilly music I love. Always have. "

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

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

" You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever. "

" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "

" Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot. "

" 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. "

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

" I always like spoken word records. "

" 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. "

" I love listening to gospel records. "

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

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

" I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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