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" Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country. "
Robbie Robertson
Cause
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" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Culture
Music
Love
" It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet. "
Robbie Robertson
Place
World
Internet
" I don't like overt traditionalism. "
Robbie Robertson
Like
" 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
Me
" Record making is an extraordinary experience. "
Robbie Robertson
Experience
Making
Extraordinary
" We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good. "
Robbie Robertson
Taste
Really
Our
" I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired. "
Robbie Robertson
Thought
Same
Inspired
" 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.' "
Robbie Robertson
Great
Age
Cool
" Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?' "
Robbie Robertson
Thinking
Think
Music
" In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything. "
Robbie Robertson
Anything
You
Mean
" Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music. "
Robbie Robertson
Been
Music
Made
" 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? "
Robbie Robertson
Know
Your
You
" The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever. "
Robbie Robertson
Kid
Ever
Holiday
" I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory. "
Robbie Robertson
Memory
Good
Family
" 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
" I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling. "
Robbie Robertson
Freedom
Storytelling
Feel
" My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives. "
Robbie Robertson
Mother
Born
Kid
" You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared. "
Robbie Robertson
Your
Heritage
Just
" People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy. "
Robbie Robertson
Talk
Go
Cloudy
" I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio. "
Robbie Robertson
Up
Studio
Get
" Boy, do I got some stories to tell. "
Robbie Robertson
Some
Stories
Tell
" Time is not kind to everything. "
Robbie Robertson
Time
Everything
Kind
" To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard. "
Robbie Robertson
Sky
Pretty
New
" I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at. "
Robbie Robertson
Back
Interesting
Journey
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Experience
Feel
Generation
" I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall. "
Robbie Robertson
Saw
Ray Charles
Ray
" In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me. "
Robbie Robertson
Me
Facts
Americana
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Always
Band
Toronto
" I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me. "
Robbie Robertson
Inspired
Work
Me
" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "
Robbie Robertson
I Think
Chuck
Berry