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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
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City of Toronto
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I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
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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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I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
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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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Record making is an extraordinary experience.
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Some music is supposed to be disposable that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless it's supposed to be trendy.
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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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Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
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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 don't like overt traditionalism.
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Music should never be harmless.
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Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
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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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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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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 really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
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I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.
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You fog the mind, you stir the soul.
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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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