Ry Cooder

A microphone has a certain range. It's not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic…

— Ry Cooder

'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on…

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

I love listening to gospel records.

— Ry Cooder

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.

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

To me, the Internet is a big scam.

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that…

— Ry Cooder

You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets…

— 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

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

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

— Ry Cooder

I'm a man of peace.

— Ry Cooder

People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger…

— Ry Cooder

Uncle Dave Macon was a great balladeer and banjo player from the early part of the 19th century... He would take a…

— 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

I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work,…

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder

Santa Monica, where I have always lived, is not a town where you will find storefront Church of God in Christ churches.…

— Ry Cooder

Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we…

— 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

When I was little, 4 or 5 years old, the first guitar I had was given to me by a blacklisted violinist…

— Ry Cooder

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

— Ry Cooder