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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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" 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

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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. "

" Music should never be harmless. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Robbie Robertson

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Unity

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things. "

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

" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "

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

Robbie Robertson

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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm always optimistic. "

Robbie Robertson

Optimistic

Always

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

" 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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Get

" 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. "

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

" 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

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