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" Everybody grows in their own way. "

Robbie Robertson

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" I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them. "

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" My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that. "

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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. "

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" Time is not kind to everything. "

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" 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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" Record making is an extraordinary experience. "

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

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" 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. "

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" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "

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" 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

" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" I'm always optimistic. "

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

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

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

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

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" 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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" Boy, do I got some stories to tell. "

Robbie Robertson

" I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs. "

Robbie Robertson

" One of the greatest live recordings, I think, in the history of the world is Ray Charles in Atlanta... And they didn't even have a big mobile recording thing set up. The word on the street was they only had like two microphones, one for the band and one for him. Perfect recordings. I think it's mono. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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.' "

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