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" Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been. "
Robbie Robertson
Bob Dylan
Been
Artist
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" When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old. "
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Old
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" 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. "
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Never
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Song
" 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. "
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" My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back. "
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Me
Mother
Never
" Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid. "
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Last
Me
" I'm always optimistic. "
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Optimistic
Always
" There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads... and the pictures were so vivid. "
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New York
Easy
Got
" 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. "
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Guitar
Fishing
Hope
" I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.' "
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Years
Cash
Holiday
" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "
Robbie Robertson
Tomorrow
Know
Interesting
" Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician. "
Robbie Robertson
Become
Everything
Him
" Music should never be harmless. "
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Harmless
Music
Never
" I don't like overt traditionalism. "
Robbie Robertson
Like
" I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto. "
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Always
Band
Toronto
" One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band. "
Robbie Robertson
Achievement
Feel
Things
" Boy, do I got some stories to tell. "
Robbie Robertson
Some
Stories
Tell
" Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do. "
Robbie Robertson
American
Friends
Looking
" I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be. "
Robbie Robertson
Will
Great
Music
" A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all. "
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Experience
Feel
Generation
" I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar. "
Robbie Robertson
Nothing
I Can
Myself
" The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. "
Robbie Robertson
Road
Great
Buddy
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Thought
Too
Young
" Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through. "
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Through
How
Know
" 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.' "
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Guitar
Powerful
Opportunity
" 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. "
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Heritage
American
Music
" 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. "
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Hot
Great
Always
" People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy. "
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Talk
Go
Cloudy
" The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.' "
Robbie Robertson
Stand Up
America
Respect
" When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away. "
Robbie Robertson
Away
You
Music