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

Robbie Robertson

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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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" 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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" My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.' "

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

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" Boy, do I got some stories to tell. "

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" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "

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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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" 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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" I don't like overt traditionalism. "

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

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

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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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" Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician. "

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

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" Music should never be harmless. "

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

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