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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

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" The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Boy, do I got some stories to tell. "

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

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

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

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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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" I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp. "

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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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" 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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" Everybody grows in their own way. "

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" I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory. "

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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. "

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" When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.' "

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" When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked. "

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

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

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" Record making is an extraordinary experience. "

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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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" 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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