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

Robbie Robertson

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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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" Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff? "

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

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

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" I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio. "

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" I don't like overt traditionalism. "

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

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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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" 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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" We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good. "

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

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

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

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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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" Time is not kind to everything. "

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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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" 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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