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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? "

Robbie Robertson

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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. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

" There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads... and the pictures were so vivid. "

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" 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. "

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" I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me. "

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

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

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

" I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

Robbie Robertson

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

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" Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician. "

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

Robbie Robertson

" 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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" The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" 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.' "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

" My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back. "

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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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" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

" A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you're kind of lost in your own storm. "

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