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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
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
City of Toronto
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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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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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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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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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Music should never be harmless.
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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 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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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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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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Record making is an extraordinary experience.
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I don't like overt traditionalism.
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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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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 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 I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.
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Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
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The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.
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It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.
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