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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. "

Robbie Robertson

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

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

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" Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music. "

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

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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 could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio. "

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

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

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" I'm not an activist. "

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

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" Everybody grows in their own way. "

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" My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things. "

Robbie Robertson

" Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country. "

Robbie Robertson

" 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

" 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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" I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life. "

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" 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. "

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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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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 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. "

Robbie Robertson

" Music should never be harmless. "

Robbie Robertson

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

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.' "

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" When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.' "

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