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

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" With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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