It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time. Ry Cooder More Quotes by Ry Cooder More Quotes From Ry Cooder With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing. Ry Cooder R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and out, and you didn't labor over the thing. I like music like that. Ry Cooder I can't help what people write or think. If somebody thinks I'm a serious archivist, they're wrong. That's been a problem. It's a shame people take that attitude, because it affects how they listen to the music. It's a big mistake to treat any pop music that way. Ry Cooder