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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 always think you should push your envelope every chance you get. "

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

" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "

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

" Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. "

" You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it. "

" 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 just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people. "

" If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future. "

" When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm a man of peace. "

" 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. "

" That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it's magic! "

" Being the front guy is a hard job. "