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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. "

Robbie Robertson

New York

Easy

Got

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" I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction. "

" I think the world of Chuck Berry. "

" You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more. "

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

Robbie Robertson

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Cloudy

" The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country. "

" 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. "

" The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid. "

Robbie Robertson

Kid

Last

" There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country. "

" 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. "

" I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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