Ry Cooder Quotes

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.

For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder!

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.

I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Music inflames temperament.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.