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" The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever. "
Robbie Robertson
Kid
Ever
Holiday
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" Time is not kind to everything. "
Robbie Robertson
Time
Everything
Kind
" Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do. "
Robbie Robertson
American
Friends
Looking
" 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
Hot
Great
Always
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Style
Beauty
Guitar
" In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me. "
Robbie Robertson
Me
Facts
Americana
" It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet. "
Robbie Robertson
Place
World
Internet
" We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good. "
Robbie Robertson
Taste
Really
Our
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Always
Band
Toronto
" Record making is an extraordinary experience. "
Robbie Robertson
Experience
Making
Extraordinary
" 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
You
Know
Writing
" Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music. "
Robbie Robertson
Been
Music
Made
" Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through. "
Robbie Robertson
Through
How
Know
" I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio. "
Robbie Robertson
Up
Studio
Get
" I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie. "
Robbie Robertson
Root
Always
Thought
" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "
Robbie Robertson
I Think
Chuck
Berry
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Culture
Music
Love
" 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
Play
Last
Got
" I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar. "
Robbie Robertson
Nothing
I Can
Myself
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Away
You
Music
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Heritage
American
Music
" 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
Live
World
History
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Lucky
Group
Feel
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Up
Time
Process
" People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy. "
Robbie Robertson
Talk
Go
Cloudy
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Know
Mind
You
" Music should never be harmless. "
Robbie Robertson
Harmless
Music
Never
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Become
Everything
Him
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Music
OK
Trendy
" 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. "
Robbie Robertson
Back
Interesting
Journey
" I'm not an activist. "
Robbie Robertson
Activist