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" 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.' "

Robbie Robertson

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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

" 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. "

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" In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me. "

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" 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. "

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" Time is not kind to everything. "

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" Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been. "

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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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" 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

" Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy. "

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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. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

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" Everybody grows in their own way. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" 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

" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

" It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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

" It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet. "

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" Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country. "

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" 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

" 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. "

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

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

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

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

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