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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Everybody grows in their own way. "

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

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" I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally. "

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" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "

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" I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta. "

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

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

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" I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going. "

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" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "

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

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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.' "

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

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" 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. "

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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. "

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