American - Musician | March 15, 1947 -
I went on tour with Ricky Skaggs and his wife, Sharon White, and the White Family in 2015. It was fantastic. They're all the greatest singers of that country stuff, traditional country up into bluegrass.
Ry Cooder
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I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it.
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I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be.
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Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.
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I always like spoken word records.
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You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started.
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I'm sort of an osmotic fellow.
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I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.
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The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.
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'Buena Vista Social Club' is a great song and a difficult tune to play.
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I'm a great lover of ballads.
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If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.
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