Cooder's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

Queen Latifah

#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. 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

#5. We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

John Bevere

#6. Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives.

K.R. Royal

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

Ry Cooder

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

Ry Cooder

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

Ry Cooder

#10. 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

#11. A lot has changed, and now we're going off to fight a war neither of us wanted. So I'm asking you now, again, if you will bind yourself to me as my wife, now and forever.

Carison to Raven

Ruth Ford Elward

#12. Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

Katherine Paterson

#13. the decay of power has significantly altered the terms of global conflict.

Moises Naim

#14. Bad music can make you weak.

Ry Cooder

#15. In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

Loren Eiseley

#16. 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