Music Quotes by Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

Bad music can make you weak.

— Ry Cooder

People respond to any good you can do in music.

— Ry Cooder

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

— Ry Cooder

Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

The world will always love Cuban music, however it changes.

— Ry Cooder

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

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

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People…

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

— Ry Cooder

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

The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big…

— Ry Cooder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians.…

— Ry Cooder

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

— Ry Cooder

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

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

— Ry Cooder

The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always…

— Ry Cooder

I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I…

— Ry Cooder

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

I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely…

— Ry Cooder

The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind.…

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In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down…

— Ry Cooder

When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the…

— Ry Cooder

There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you…

— Ry Cooder

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we…

— Ry Cooder