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I’m not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

I’m very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl… I don’t ever want to forget her face, but if I don’t forget her face, I’ll go crazy… How can I remember the face I can’t forget? Suddenly I’m writing country western music!

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

I find a difference between what gets called world music – a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in more of a modernized version – and Explorer Series stuff, which is completely undiluted indigenous folk music. That’s a lot more powerful than a lot of the super-processed stuff that comes out now.

I’ve been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I’ve been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

Western music is arguably America’s greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.