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Ry Cooder

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 15, 1947

The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.

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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.

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If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.

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Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

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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.

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To me, the Internet is a big scam.

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'Buena Vista Social Club' is a great song and a difficult tune to play.

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I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever.

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Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.

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Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

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I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy.

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If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

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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.

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I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.

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When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.

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It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since.

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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.

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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.

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I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

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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.

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