“All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that ha...” — Ry Cooder Quote

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing.

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot.

'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score.

After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

God ain't got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.