Blimey Ry you’re getting grumpier than me!
“Rock as it is known today just doesn’t interest me at all,” said Ry Cooder to The Guardian in 2011. “I hate commercial music. If I hear that money in it, all that winking and nodding… It kills me.”
You could say that this time thing is what gives music its quality. Depth, if you like. Now? The urge for immediate success – always with one eye on the bottom line – often removes something from music. A purity perhaps? Realism? An individuality? Cooder is of that opinion, “I think, maybe, because everything happens too fast, that you don’t build a craft, you don’t build artistry in yourself. And you don’t listen. If you don’t listen to music, all music, I don’t see how you know. It’s like a child learning to talk without having heard people speaking. What are you gonna do, start talking in abbreviations, like texting? And that’s exactly what’s happening. If you don’t read books and you don’t understand experience, how the hell can you write about it and sing about it? Or you’re just going to end up writing about yourself. Then it’s like everybody’s in a closet with themselves and it’s very limited.”
Source: The Audiophile Man
Photo: Abby Ross
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