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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

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" I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie. "

" I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.' "

" Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff? "

" I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do. "

" The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country. "

" I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio. "

Robbie Robertson

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" Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music. "

" I do not have yearnings to get back on a bus. If it means getting on a bus, I don't want to do it. "

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

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

" In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything. "

" 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.' "

" There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country. "

" Everybody grows in their own way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared. "

" I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life. "

" The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. "

" When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old. "

" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "

" I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be. "

" 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

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" I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry. "