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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.
Robbie Robertson
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Robbie Robertson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 5
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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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There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.
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I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
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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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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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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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