Ry Cooder Quotes
I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
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I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns.
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Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!
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When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You see their eyes light up with excitement or darken with confusion. You learn things you would never find in a survey, database, or questionnaire. You learn why people buy.
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I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.
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I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.
