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" After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other. "
Ry Cooder
Fail
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" Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done. "
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" American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact. "
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" Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels. "
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" 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. "
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" Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something. "
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" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "
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" 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. "
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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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" R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and out, and you didn't labor over the thing. I like music like that. "
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Always
Gold
" I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. "
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Great
Who
" If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing. "
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Ignorance
Hate
You
" People respond to any good you can do in music. "
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You
Respond
" I'm a great lover of ballads. "
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Ballads
Great
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" 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. "
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Starting
Difference
" 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? "
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" I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that. "
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" When I was little, 4 or 5 years old, the first guitar I had was given to me by a blacklisted violinist - a lefty, commie guy, pinko man. "
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First
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" 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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People
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" 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. "
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