American - Musician | March 15, 1947 -
I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy.
Ry Cooder
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If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.
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I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever.
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Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.
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I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.
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Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.
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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.
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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.
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What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.
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I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.
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The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.
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I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.
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