105 Quotes by Ry Cooder

American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.

I'm a man of peace.

You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living.

With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.

Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no ambience, no real resonance.

Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.

After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll say, 'Well, how about any of my other recent records. I've been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?' And they go, 'Huh?'