Ry Cooder Quotes

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I think everyone has such varied taste in music.

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

I know music is subjective.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

I have very different kinds of songs - there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are different kinds of styles, so not every musician can play both types of music.

No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

I'm doing this record called 'Epicloud.' Over the course of the full record, there's sort of new agey stuff, jazzy stuff, really heavy stuff. We basically cover the gamut.

I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.