Ry Cooder Quotes
No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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I grew up with Bond.
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To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.
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They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.
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Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.
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The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.
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God sendeth cold after clothes.
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It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way he analyzes not only this country but also the history of this country, the images that this country is fabricating through Hollywood, and what consequence that has in our imagination.
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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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I try not to do it in a way that is hurtful, but I always tell him the truth, and he tells me the same thing. I trust him the most, and I know he trusts me the most.
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People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.
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No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
