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

Robbie Robertson

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Robbie Robertson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 5
Actor
Film Actor
Film Score Composer
Guitarist
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
City of Toronto
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There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.
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When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let me turn you on to some things, and the other person does the same thing. And they play you stuff that maybe you weren't that familiar with and likewise.
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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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When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.
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It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass...Music should never be harmless.
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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.
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I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.
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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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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.
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I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.
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I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
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I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
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Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
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Music should never be harmless.
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You fog the mind, you stir the soul.
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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 think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.
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I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
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It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.
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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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