Cooder Quotes

#1. I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

Ken Hensley

#2. Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces influenced by Ry Cooder's desert dusty roads as much as anything a bassist could conjure up. It fits a mellow, contemplative mood perfectly.

Bryan Beller

#3. Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Compay Segundo

#4. 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

Ry Cooder

#5. Bad music can make you weak.

Ry Cooder

#6. It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.

Thomas Reid

#7. Prejudice of any kind are an insult to intelligence

Miguel El Portugues

#8. What is that by knowing which everything in this universe is known?'22 That is the answer that Hindu philosophy seeks to provide.

Hindol Sengupta

#9. Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

J.J. Abrams

#10. The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Karl Marx

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

Ry Cooder

#12. Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Ry Cooder

#13. No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Ry Cooder

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

Ry Cooder

#15. It's all in the mind, you know.

Spike Milligan

#16. As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.

Sarah Cross

#17. A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

John Eldredge

#18. Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

Antoine-Marin Lemierre

#19. Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved:

Marcus Aurelius