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It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.
Robbie Robertson
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Robbie Robertson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 5
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Singer-Songwriter
City of Toronto
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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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Everybody grows in their own way.
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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 haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.
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I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
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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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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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