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" 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
First
Everyone
Me
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" I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head. "
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" 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. "
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" I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy. "
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" If it hadn't been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would've been unbelievably dull, and I would've been sacking groceries somewhere and probably, at this point, running a little 7-Eleven down by the airport. "
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" Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it. "
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" 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. "
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" I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get. "
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" When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" A microphone has a certain range. It's not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that's a good sound. "
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Nice
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" I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world. "
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" Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems. "
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" Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something. "
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" 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. "
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" People respond to any good you can do in music. "
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" I'm a man of peace. "
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Man
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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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" If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future. "
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Past
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You
" 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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" American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact. "
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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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" Santa Monica, where I have always lived, is not a town where you will find storefront Church of God in Christ churches. So, the whole idea of gospel quartet singing is something I never knew existed until I began to hear it on record. "
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" 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. "
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