105 Quotes by Ry Cooder

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

Bad music can make you weak.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object – this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence.

'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score.

To me, the Internet is a big scam.

I'm sort of an osmotic fellow.