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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. "

Ry Cooder

Challenge

You

Try

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Entertainer

" 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. "

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

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

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Sound

Need

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

" 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

" I always like spoken word records. "

Ry Cooder

Always

Records

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

Ry Cooder

Job

Problems

" Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time. "

" I'm a great lover of ballads. "

" 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. "

" Being the front guy is a hard job. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Ry Cooder

Great

Who

" The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "