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" The ocean is very comfortable. I could never live inland. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I love listening to gospel records. "

" I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say. "

" I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things. "

" Country hillbilly music I love. Always have. "

" I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing. "

" 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. "