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The most significant adversary of relationships and love is life which is wrought with conflicts. RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)	added by RJ Intindola 4 years ago
Success equals achievement and achievements equal to happiness. That's the universal truth. Mwanandeke Kindembo	added by King_M 4 years ago
I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing. Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it. Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful. Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can. Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's always that little buzz you get when you do something well and sing it out loud to the public. And people clap and tell you how great you are. Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it. Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Ain't no chance if you don't take it. Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often. Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point. Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
If you're white working with non-white people, you will be branded as a colonialist by some people, regardless of your efforts or intentions. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Musicians understand each other through means other than speaking. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I'm a great lover of ballads. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago

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