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

Robbie Robertson

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

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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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" I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall. "

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" I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at. "

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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 was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives. "

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

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

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

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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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" Time is not kind to everything. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys. "

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" When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old. "

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

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" I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp. "

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" A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all. "

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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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