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Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'
Robbie Robertson
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Robbie Robertson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 5
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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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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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Everybody grows in their own way.
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I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
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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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You fog the mind, you stir the soul.
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Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
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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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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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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 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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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 like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.
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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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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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