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" One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band. "
Robbie Robertson
Achievement
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" Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable. "
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" The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. "
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" 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 think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Everybody grows in their own way. "
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" My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back. "
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" When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away. "
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Away
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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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Healthy
Far
Last
" 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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Lost
" 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. "
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Thought
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" I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall. "
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" 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. "
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Heritage
American
Music
" 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. "
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Know
Writing
" In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything. "
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Anything
You
Mean
" 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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Love
Music
Beginning
" 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.' "
Robbie Robertson
Guitar
Powerful
Opportunity
" 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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Lucky
Group
Feel
" 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.' "
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Said
People
Band
" Boy, do I got some stories to tell. "
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Stories
Tell
" I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.' "
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Said
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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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" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "
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Know
Interesting
" I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp. "
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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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Everything
Him
" The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.' "
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Stand Up
America
Respect
" I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?' "
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People
Want
Saying
" I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life. "
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Those
Admire
Dogs