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" 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

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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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" Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I'm not an activist. "

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" I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. "

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

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

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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. "

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" 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? "

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

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

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" 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.' "

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