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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. "

Robbie Robertson

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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 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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" I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling. "

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" Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference. "

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

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" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "

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" Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid. "

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" My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that. "

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" I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio. "

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

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

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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. "

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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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" Everybody grows in their own way. "

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" Boy, do I got some stories to tell. "

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

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

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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 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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.' "

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" When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.' "

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" 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. "

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

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" I'm not an activist. "

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