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Ry Cooder Quotes

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 15, 1947

Topics

Success Failure Music People Win

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

Think Mouth Back Go Forget Radio

I know how it feels to be the newbie.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

Jessica Savitch

Woman News Anchor Never First Seen

Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

Family Dog Parents People Goodbye

It's very tough to run my side of the line. Eight out of 10 plays, they don't get anything.

Tough Run Line Out Side Anything

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Women Relationship Men Believe Say

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

Morning Night Evening Result Cloudy

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

Men Victory Down More Up Order

I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.

Money Me Friends Enough Long You

There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.

Music Style Myself People Church

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

William Makepeace Thackeray

New Things New Two Things Make Most

Hmm... my bedroom's really messy. It's probably the messiest bedroom you could ever think of. Like, you think it's messy, but when you go there, you can't see one bit of floor anywhere. Clothes, makeup... I'm getting sent loads of clothes and stuff, so it's just piling up everywhere. I've to jump over it in order to get into my bed.

Makeup Think Clothes You Jump Go

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