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Ry Cooder Biography

Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, and record producer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.

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Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

Alone, Beautiful, Good, Musician, Tunes

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

Clever, Feeling, Good, Spent, Wisdom, Wise

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

Earth, Fell, Guitar, Music, Taken

Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

Happen, Happens, Interface, Interfaces, Lets, Public

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Chance, Envelopes, Push, Think, Thinking

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Mean, Musician, Musicians, Speaking, Understand

Bad music can make you weak.

Bad, Bad Music, Guitar, Music, Weak

There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.

Linear, Music, Scripts, Sometimes, Way

If you think you fit into a situation, it's worth trying.

Fit, Situation, Think, Thinking, Trying

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

Afraid, Paranoid, People, Work

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

Angeles, Cities, High, Los Angeles, Mexico

These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

Cubans, Looks, Musician, Musicians, Part, Tradition

Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?

Differences, Interesting, Like, Make, People

You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets to hear very few of these. They just won't know. They might be great records, but how in the world is the public supposed to find out about them?

Doomsday, Know, Public, Records, World, Years

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

Done, Good, Improvise, Might, Pieces, Respond

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

Concerned, Language, Musician, Musicians

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

Communicate, Musician, Rely, Way, Ways

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

Feels, Gratification, Life, Music Is, People

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.

Hear, Islands, Littles, Probably, Think, Thinking

The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.

Instrument, Mean, People, Realize, Show, Tape