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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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City of 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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Some music is supposed to be disposable that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless it's supposed to be trendy.
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I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
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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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Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
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I don't like overt traditionalism.
Robbie Robertson
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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Record making is an extraordinary experience.
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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 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 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 really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
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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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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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You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
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It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.
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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.
Robbie Robertson
I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
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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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Music should never be harmless.
Robbie Robertson
