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" If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes. "

Robbie Robertson

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" Music should never be harmless. "

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" 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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" To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard. "

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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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