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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 Famous Quote	added 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 Famous Quote	added 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 Famous Quote	added 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 Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 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 Famous Quote	added 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 Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future. – Ry Cooder Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own... – Tom Waits Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately. – Tom Waits Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. – Tom Waits Famous Quote	added 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 Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things. – Tom Waits Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. – Tom Waits Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her. – Tom Waits Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. – Tom Waits Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. – Tom Waits Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. – Tom Waits Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me! – Richard Pryor Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic. – Richard Pryor Famous Quote	added 4 years ago

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