Author: Ry Cooder

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Ry Cooder

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

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

- Ry Cooder

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.

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

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

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

- Ry Cooder

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

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

- Ry Cooder

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.

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

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.

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

You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started.

You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started.

- Ry Cooder

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