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Bad music can make you weak.
I'm a great lover of ballads.
I'm sort of an osmotic fellow.
To me, the Internet is a big scam.
Being the front guy is a hard job.
I always like spoken word records.
I love listening to gospel records.
Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.
Musicians are not so concerned with language.
I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever.
People respond to any good you can do in music.
Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.
Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.
Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.
All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.
It's good to see more young people playing instruments.
The ocean is very comfortable. I could never live inland.
If you think you fit into a situation, it's worth trying.
Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.
The world will always love Cuban music, however it changes.
The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating.
To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.
You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.
Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.
I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.
Needless to say, you've got to have someone who can speak for you.
It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time.
I don't like being watched, and I don't like being an entertainer.
People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.
If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.
When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.
Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.
You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.
Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.
'Buena Vista Social Club' is a great song and a difficult tune to play.
I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy.
Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something.
It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks.
I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.
Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring.
Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.
I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing.
If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.
I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.
American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.
No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.
I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.
Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done.
Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.