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" In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything. "

Robbie Robertson

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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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" 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 don't like overt traditionalism. "

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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 don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going. "

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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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" I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?' "

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" I'm always optimistic. "

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

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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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" I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs. "

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

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

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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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" Everybody grows in their own way. "

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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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" The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country. "

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