Author: Ry Cooder

Quotes

Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems.

Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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.

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.

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

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

- 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

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