David Hidalgo Quotations

It was kind of tongue-in-cheek, a goof-off to surprise our parents, ... But we couldn't play it. It became a challenge. You could compare it to country blues, or bluegrass - there's a tradition of form, a high standard of musicianship. That really attracted us.

To find something comparable to that, but in our own culture, that was refreshing.

It was the climate, and that's what we wanted to do, ... only when they didn't want us to understand what they were saying.

I knew how to get hold of Lalo, ... and Willie G, who used to be with the Midnighters - I gave Ry the numbers, and it worked out great, because Willie ended up writing a lot of the numbers with Ry, and singing a lot of it. And I played a little rhythm guitar on it, but not much.

We haven't forgotten that, ... It's something we draw from always.

We thought it was mainstream, ... We said, do it mainstream. We're American. We grew up here with everybody else. We thought the music would appeal to everyone, not just a certain ethnic group or age group. We thought it was universal.