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" At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.' "

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" I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta. "

Robbie Robertson

Love

Music

Beginning

" For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend. "

" I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling. "

" The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo. "

" Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy. "

Robbie Robertson

Music

Trendy

" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "

" There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity. "

Robbie Robertson

Young

Unity

" Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do. "

" By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll. "

" A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you're kind of lost in your own storm. "

" I'm not an activist. "

Robbie Robertson

Activist

" It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult. "

" When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked. "

" When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.' "

" Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?' "

" Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been. "

" Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. "

" If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes. "

" I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp. "

" My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back. "

Robbie Robertson

Mother

Never

" The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever. "

" Music should never be harmless. "

" Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid. "

Robbie Robertson

Kid

Last

" I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more. "

" One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band. "

" People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.' "

" I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction. "

" Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference. "

" It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet. "

" I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn't it be great if there was a combination of the two? You could go to synagogue, and it would be really hot in there. "