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All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can't stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That's true on record and on stage. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I can't help what people write or think. If somebody thinks I'm a serious archivist, they're wrong. That's been a problem. It's a shame people take that attitude, because it affects how they listen to the music. It's a big mistake to treat any pop music that way. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and out, and you didn't labor over the thing. I like music like that. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll say, 'Well, how about any of my other recent records. I've been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?' And they go, 'Huh? – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
A microphone has a certain range. It's not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that's a good sound. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no ambience, no real resonance. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I'm a man of peace. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I've done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi's and Molson Beer. You wouldn't know it. But some of it's damn good. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies. You come here, and you leave all your traditions behind. And since there's no traditions here, you just make one up. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
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 Famous Quote	added 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 Famous Quote	added 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 Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago

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