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" Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems. "
Ry Cooder
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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. "
Ry Cooder
Content
Nice
Capture
" 'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score. "
Ry Cooder
Work
Crazy
People
" I'm sort of an osmotic fellow. "
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Sort
Fellow
" I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy. "
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Always
Thought
Music
" People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory. "
Ry Cooder
Find
Get Together
People
" 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
Think
Simplicity
Music
" I went on tour with Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, and the White Family in 2015. It was fantastic. They're all the greatest singers of that country stuff, traditional country up into bluegrass. "
Ry Cooder
Wife
Country
White
" I always like spoken word records. "
Ry Cooder
Always
Like
Records
" People respond to any good you can do in music. "
Ry Cooder
Good
You
Respond
" Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten. "
Ry Cooder
Die
Fragile
People
" It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time. "
Ry Cooder
Nobody
Time
Waste
" American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact. "
Ry Cooder
American
Imperialism
Fact
" If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need. "
Ry Cooder
Like
Sound
Need
" Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated. "
Ry Cooder
Feel
Isolated
Then
" I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world. "
Ry Cooder
Soothing
World
Like
" 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
Sound
Starting
Difference
" 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
High School
Listening
Loved
" 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. "
Ry Cooder
God
Singing
Always
" 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
Mexican
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Leave
" I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it. "
Ry Cooder
Hope
People
Heaven
" I'm a great lover of ballads. "
Ry Cooder
Ballads
Great
Lover
" 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
People
Media
Fake
" 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. "
Ry Cooder
Nobody
Always
Gold
" 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. "
Ry Cooder
Mad
Work
Mind
" Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. "
Ry Cooder
Chavez
Consciousness
Dawn
" 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
You
Getting Started
Back
" It's good to see more young people playing instruments. "
Ry Cooder
People
More
Playing
" I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion. "
Ry Cooder
Background
Religion
Tribe
" 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
Money
Lost
Always
" 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? "
Ry Cooder
Guitar
Day
Magic