“Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.”
Pop Chronicles: Show 55 - Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19838/m1/, interview recorded 3.8.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20100116003442/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/index-to-interviews.
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Beatles The History of Rock Music http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html
“The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre.”
Contemporary French Poetry, The Poetry Review, 1914
“I write music with my mouth — first lyrics, then song, then rhythm.”
On his creative process in “An Interview with Tato Laviera, the King of Nuyorican Poetical Migrations” https://www.latinorebels.com/2012/07/11/an-interview-with-tato-laviera-the-king-of-nuyorican-poetical-migrations/ in Latino Rebels (2012 Jul 11)

On why he tends to look to the past
Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1349947,00.html Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007).
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“And waste their music on the savage race.”
Satire V, l. 228.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987)