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"Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me."


"A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop."


"I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!"


"I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother."
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"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned."

"If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me."

"I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die."

"I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference."

"That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them."

"Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say."

"You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth."
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