Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

" Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated. "

" I'm a great lover of ballads. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's good to see more young people playing instruments. "

Ry Cooder

People

Playing

" I don't like being watched, and I don't like being an entertainer. "

Ry Cooder

Being

Entertainer

" I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing. "

" I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it. "

" I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot. "

" 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. "

" I hate films. Films make me sick now, and if something makes me sick, I always back off. "

" Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something. "

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

Ry Cooder

Job

Problems

" To me, the Internet is a big scam. "

Ry Cooder

Scam

Big

" 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. "

" 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

" I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever. "

" It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks. "

" I love listening to gospel records. "

" I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say. "

" If you're white working with non-white people, you will be branded as a colonialist by some people, regardless of your efforts or intentions. "

" After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other. "

" Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking. "

" 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. "

" With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing. "

Ry Cooder

Over

Hard

" 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

Blues

Earth