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On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you go.' It's like a magic carpet, see?
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I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.
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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.'
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The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always think of it as family music, really, because families sang it.
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I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot.
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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.
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Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can't stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That's true on record and on stage.
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I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.
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I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing.
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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.
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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.
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I went on tour with Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, and the White Family in 2015. It was fantastic. They're all the greatest singers of that country stuff, traditional country up into bluegrass.
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You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started.
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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.
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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.
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Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.'
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How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.
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I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.
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Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.
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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.
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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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If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.
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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.
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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!
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I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it.
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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.
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I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.
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The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.
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After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.
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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.
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