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I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzsche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future. Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own... Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately. Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something. Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things. Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her. Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago

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