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" It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since. "

Ry Cooder

Performance

Experience

Doing

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Ry Cooder

People

Playing

" I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy. "

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

" I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion. "

" People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll say, 'Well, how about any of my other recent records. I've been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?' And they go, 'Huh?' "

" I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining. "

" 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. "

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

" I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things. "

" 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. "

" I love listening to gospel records. "

" 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. "

" Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done. "

Ry Cooder

Business

You

" Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels. "

" 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. "

" When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out. "

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

Ry Cooder

Great

Who

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

Ry Cooder

Being

Entertainer

" Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance. "

" 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. "

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

" I've done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi's and Molson Beer. You wouldn't know it. But some of it's damn good. "

" People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it. "

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

" 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

" Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it. "

" I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get. "

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

" 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. "