David Hidalgo Quotes

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. - David Hidalgo

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

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

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. - David Hidalgo

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. - David Hidalgo

[Always mindful of their cultural history, Los Lobos jumped at the chance to record there, particularly since San Francisco, like their native Los Angeles, supports a sizeable Chicano (Mexican-American) populace.] Well, it's more of a mixed Latino community, ... There's a lot of Mexicans, but there's also people from Latin America - Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Hondurans and so on. There's an area called the Mission District, which is where they all live, that's pretty much the Latin side of town. They've always had a large Latin music scene up there, though it's more like salsa. - David Hidalgo

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