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Ry Cooder
Profession : Musician
Birth : March 15, 1947
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It's good to see more young people playing instruments.
Ry Cooder
On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you go.' It's like a magic carpet, see?
Ry Cooder
I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.
Ry Cooder
Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.
Ry Cooder
I hate films. Films make me sick now, and if something makes me sick, I always back off.
Ry Cooder
I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do.
Ry Cooder
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
Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.'
Ry Cooder
I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.
Ry Cooder
I wanted to be a car pinstriper, but there was nobody to teach me how to do it. So I said, 'Music's good too. I'll do that maybe, since I can't work out how to do this pinstriping.'
Ry Cooder
The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always think of it as family music, really, because families sang it.
Ry Cooder
I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot.
Ry Cooder
Who does this, at age 71, try to put a tour together from scratch? I have to say it's scary at times. But I like a challenge 'cause it keeps you on your toes.
Ry Cooder
I don't like being watched, and I don't like being an entertainer.
Ry Cooder
People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.
Ry Cooder
The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.
Ry Cooder
Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something.
Ry Cooder
Uncle Dave Macon was a great balladeer and banjo player from the early part of the 19th century... He would take a social problem or something that he was looking at and make up a clever little song about it, you know, in a language everyone understood, a man of the people.
Ry Cooder
Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.
Ry Cooder
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