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Record making is an extraordinary experience.

Robbie Robertson

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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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Music should never be harmless.
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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 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 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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Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
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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 try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.
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Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
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You fog the mind, you stir the soul.
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Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.
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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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Everybody grows in their own way.
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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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Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
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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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I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
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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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It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.
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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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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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