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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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" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

Music

Trendy

" 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. "

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

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

Robbie Robertson

Mother

Never

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me. "

" You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared. "

" I'm not an activist. "

Robbie Robertson

Activist

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

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

" 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. "

" Everybody grows in their own way. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "

" I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction. "

" There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity. "

Robbie Robertson

Young

Unity

" I don't like overt traditionalism. "

Robbie Robertson