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It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time.

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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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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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Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

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

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I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.

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Santa Monica, where I have always lived, is not a town where you will find storefront Church of God in Christ churches. So, the whole idea of gospel quartet singing is something I never knew existed until I began to hear it on record.

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'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 15th, 1947

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