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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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" In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me. "

Robbie Robertson

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" There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing. "

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

" 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. "

" Time is not kind to everything. "

" People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy. "

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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. "

" I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them. "

" I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally. "

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

" I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't like overt traditionalism. "

Robbie Robertson

" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not an activist. "

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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.' "

" 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. "

" It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "