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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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" 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. "

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

" I'm not an activist. "

Robbie Robertson

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me. "

" To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard. "

" 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

" Time is not kind to everything. "

" 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. "

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

" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "

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

" 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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Robbie Robertson

Maturity

Childhood

" 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. "

" After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?' "

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