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" Music should never be harmless. "

Robbie Robertson

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

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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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" 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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" 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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