105 Quotes by Ry Cooder

If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.

It's good to see more young people playing instruments.

I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

I hate films. Films make me sick now, and if something makes me sick, I always back off.

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.

I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do.

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.