Future Quote by Ry Cooder Download Open image “If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.” — Ry Cooder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Future In the past Past Predict Song Time
Future is gonna be remembered forever. Future just has so much quality music. — Lil Peep Copy Share Image
In my time, we didn't know songs could last. All we ever thought of was next Tuesday. You never imagined a future. — Donovan Copy Share Image
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not. — Tennessee Ernie Ford Copy Share Image
I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were,… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Music has the strongest ability to bring back the past because of the memories we attach to certain songs. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
A song can be as powerful as a time machine. It brings you back to a certain time and place, with a certain someone. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
It's important to refresh the way of thinking and doing things musically. You can get so stuck in what you've done in the past… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything. — Ariel Pink 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
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A strong, durable Puerto Rican economy will leave the island better prepared to handle future natural disasters. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future - you cannot foresee that. — Edinson Cavani Copy Share Image
I think everybody in the future has stopped talking to each other and we all just use emojis. — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image