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I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy.

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

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I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever.

Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

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.

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

When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.

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

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

It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since.

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'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...

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

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

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

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

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...

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.

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