Ry Cooder Quotes

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

'Socialism' became this weird household word partially because right-wingers call Obama a socialist, which he is the farthest from.

I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was five years old.

I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.

When I found out that I could carry a tune, well, I came to realize that I had a gift, that it was a kind of a blessing. And I think if you're given something special, you ought to try and give that something back. If you don't, it's a sin. No question.

When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'

Grandma Holly told me at three years old that I had a voice of an angel, and I just never stopped singing.

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

I got my first drum kit when I was six years old.

While signing 'Sakhavu,' I wasn't aware of the depth of communism in Kerala. I was born and brought up in Chennai, and our political ideologies are very different.

I've always loved music since I was a little kid.

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house.

A family friend was staying with us once and had brought over a ukulele. I just loved the way she played it. I saved up the money from my 11th birthday and went out and bought one for myself.

I can't remember when I didn't have an instrument around.

My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

You pick up a lot of things as a kid. That's why I play Telecaster.

There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time.

I am happy to be called a 'commie' as long as I am one, so I should know if I am or not. I don't know what I am.

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

In the neighborhood that I grew up in - in New York on Long Island - there were a lot of musicians. For some reason, that time in history in our town in New York, everybody played. So it was all around me.

I know my Trotskyites well, and I know you don't want to be invested in the U.K. if a Trotskyite is prime minister.