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" 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. "

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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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" 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? "

" All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing. "

" The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand. "

" I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. "

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" I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People respond to any good you can do in music. "

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

" 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

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

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

" I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world. "

Ry Cooder

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" I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be. "

" The ocean is very comfortable. I could never live inland. "

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

" 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. "

" To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing. "

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" You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done. "

" Being the front guy is a hard job. "

" I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do. "

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

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" If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future. "

" Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. "

" 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. "

" If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need. "

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