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" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "

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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. "

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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.' "

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

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

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

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

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" 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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" My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back. "

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" I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall. "

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" By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll. "

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

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

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

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" Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?' "

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" Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do. "

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

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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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