Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a car pinstriper, but there was nobody to teach me how to do it. So I said, 'Music's… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind.… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians.… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I can't help what people write or think. If somebody thinks I'm a serious archivist, they're wrong. That's been a problem. It's… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win;… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
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. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
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… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
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… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
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… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
