Notable Quotable: Louie Pérez of Los Lobos

"[Los Lobos] has always sung what they believed in and nothing less...You know, so much of what we do is tradition and that is all history. And that's all about looking where we've been, but just keeping moving forward. The purest definition of tradition is to do something that maintains the tradition but moving forward, making something new. That's what we've done." — Louie Pérez

Louie Pérez is the guitarist, percussionist, jarana player, songwriter, and co-founder of 2021 NEA National Heritage Fellows and Grammy Award-winning band Los Lobos. Listen to our conversation with him about the history of Los Lobos on the Art Works podcast.