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Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder
American Musician
Born: Mar 15, 1947
Always Good Me Music People You
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Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway. Ry Cooder
Critics Records Write No-One Reads Sell Unfortunately Anyway
It's good to see more young people playing instruments. Ry Cooder
Good People Young See More Instruments Young People Playing
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
Musicians People First Sense Way About Through Idea Like Most Felt Always Fake Traditional Were Traditional Sense Modern Mean Media Lives
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
Music Family Simplicity Think Rural Brothers Because Always Still Very Hit Families Flavor Really Sang Popular
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
School Listening Country Teenager Back High High School Gospel Always Lot Quite Quite A Lot Bluegrass Loved Started
People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it. Ry Cooder
Love People Care dont Care Should Who Applause
Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something. Ry Cooder
Music You Sometimes Dig Hunt Find Something Treasure
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
Music You Writing Opportunity Imagination Tool Out Something Various Perfect Taking New Look Because Making Just Soar Them Then Your Used Elements Film Film Music
American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact. Ry Cooder
Simple Economic Simple Fact Fact Imperialism Global Known American
Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated. Ry Cooder
Music You Complicity Feel Isolated Then Creates Less
That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it's magic! Ry Cooder
Wax Magic Compression Records Because Sound Version Tubes Represent
The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it. Ry Cooder
Music You Mind Gospel Music Further About Takes Like Reached Sing Gospel Always Being Hold Your Found Play Thing
It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time. Ry Cooder
Time Crazy Records Nobody Make Just Waste Waste Of Time Buys
I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever. Ry Cooder
Truck Been Forever Wanting Ice Ice Cream Cream
Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. Ry Cooder
Chavez Dawn Consciousness
Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten. Ry Cooder
Music People Die Forgotten Fragile
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
Me Money Made Lost Dime Horrible Fact Never Toured Road Around Always Years Lot In Fact Drag
I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it. Ry Cooder
Life Know Understand Listened Blues Whole Play
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. Ry Cooder
Humble Earth Close Mournful Pathetic Blues Nostalgic Sentimental Expressive Thing
I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one. Ry Cooder
Research Someplace Development New Look Get Trying Just Each Each One Albums
It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks. Ry Cooder
Writing Tremendously Record Checks Make Expensive Basis
I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies. You come here, and you leave all your traditions behind. And since there's no traditions here, you just make one up. Ry Cooder
You Black Everybody Something Idea Since Come Like Make Leave Traditions Mexican Up Irish Behind Just Happens Whether Your Who Here
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