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" I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.' "
Robbie Robertson
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" I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling. "
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" My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back. "
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" When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away. "
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" 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. "
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" The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. "
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" Everybody grows in their own way. "
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Everybody
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" I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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OK
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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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Events
Cry
Music
" I don't like overt traditionalism. "
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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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Said
Pink
Paint
" I'm always optimistic. "
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Optimistic
Always
" 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. "
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American
Friends
Looking
" Record making is an extraordinary experience. "
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Experience
Making
Extraordinary
" 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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Kid
Last
Me
" 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. "
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" I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life. "
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Those
Admire
Dogs
" 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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Taste
Really
Our
" Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable. "
Robbie Robertson
Years
Enough
Long
" Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been. "
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Bob Dylan
Been
Artist
" I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio. "
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Get
" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Storm
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Lost
" People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.' "
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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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" 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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Last
Got