I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get. Ry Cooder More Quotes by Ry Cooder More Quotes From Ry Cooder Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. Ry Cooder chavez consciousness dawn People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere. Ry Cooder never me you people I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion. Ry Cooder tribe background where religion When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out. Ry Cooder your get real world If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need. Ry Cooder need something you sound Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten. Ry Cooder die music forgotten people It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since. Ry Cooder performance doing back experience 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 road never me money What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it. Ry Cooder performance someone drawing music I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it. Ry Cooder understand know play life 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 blues sentimental earth humble I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one. Ry Cooder new look research trying I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head. Ry Cooder head push like not-interested Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can't stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That's true on record and on stage. Ry Cooder I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be. Ry Cooder I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. Ry Cooder Musicians understand each other through means other than speaking. Ry Cooder Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance. Ry Cooder When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice. Ry Cooder 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
