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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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" Music should never be harmless. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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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" 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 feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys. "

" 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 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 do not have yearnings to get back on a bus. If it means getting on a bus, I don't want to do it. "

" When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked. "

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

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

" I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto. "

" I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance. "

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

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

" The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do. "

" 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. "

" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "

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

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

" I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta. "

" Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music. "