The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that. Ry Cooder Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The Delmore Brothers is hit music – very, very popular – and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always think of it as family music, really, because families sang it. Ry Cooder Read Quote
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.’ Ry Cooder Read Quote
I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. Ry Cooder Read Quote
How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don’t understand it. Ry Cooder Read Quote
I hate films. Films make me sick now, and if something makes me sick, I always back off. Ry Cooder Read Quote
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 the modern media fake way, but traditionally – what they went through, what their lives were like. Ry Cooder Read Quote
