I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money – it was horrible. Ry Cooder Read Quote
If every song is in the past tense, that’s a drag, so you have to predict the future. Ry Cooder Read Quote
Uncle Dave Macon was a great balladeer and banjo player from the early part of the 19th century… He would take a social problem or something that he was looking at and make up a clever little song about it, you know, in a language everyone understood, a man of the people. Ry Cooder Read Quote
A microphone has a certain range. It’s not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that’s a good sound. Ry Cooder Read Quote
The blues is so expressive – nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It’s a nuance-filled thing. Ry Cooder Read Quote
