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You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

Robbie Robertson

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Robbie Robertson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 5
Actor
Film Actor
Film Score Composer
Guitarist
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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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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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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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It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.
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I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
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There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.
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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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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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Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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 I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.
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