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Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

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Robbie Robertson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 5
Actor
Film Actor
Film Score Composer
Guitarist
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Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
City of Toronto
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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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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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You fog the mind, you stir the soul.
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Record making is an extraordinary experience.
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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 think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.
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There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.
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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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When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
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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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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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You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
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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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Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'
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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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Music should never be harmless.
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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 like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.
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Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
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