- Kinda
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.
- Ice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.
- Fragile
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Expensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a man of peace.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Harmonic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Compression
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Dust
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- Nov 07, 2020