Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Robbie Robertson

Related Quotes:

" That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" I don't like overt traditionalism. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" Music should never be harmless. "

Robbie Robertson

" Time is not kind to everything. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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

" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" 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.' "

Robbie Robertson

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

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

" One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend. "

Robbie Robertson

" There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing. "

Robbie Robertson

" Everybody grows in their own way. "

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. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally. "

Robbie Robertson

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

Robbie Robertson

" 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. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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

" 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

" I'm not an activist. "

Robbie Robertson

" You never know what could be interesting tomorrow. "

Robbie Robertson