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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.

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 just let your imagination soar.

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 make one up.

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.

Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems.

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.

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

I'm a man of peace.

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

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

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.

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.

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

After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll say, 'Well, how about any of my other recent records. I've been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?' And they go, 'Huh?'

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.

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!

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

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.

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