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"You know, I feel sorry for the young artists."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."

"You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect."

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"It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time."


"We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective."


"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."


"A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on."


"And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here."


"Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one."
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