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I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

Robbie Robertson

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Robbie Robertson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 5
Actor
Film Actor
Film Score Composer
Guitarist
Record Producer
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City of Toronto
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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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Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.
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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 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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When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.
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Record making is an extraordinary experience.
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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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Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
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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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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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Music should never be harmless.
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Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
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Everybody grows in their own way.
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I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
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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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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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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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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 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 don't like overt traditionalism.
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