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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
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
City of Toronto
Tomorrow
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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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You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
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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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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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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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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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I don't like overt traditionalism.
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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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When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.
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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 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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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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I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.
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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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Record making is an extraordinary experience.
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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 like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.
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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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