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

Robbie Robertson

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" 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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" 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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" I don't like overt traditionalism. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "

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" I'm always optimistic. "

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

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" Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?' "

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

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

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

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" There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity. "

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

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" 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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