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I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
— Robbie Robertson
Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'
— Robbie Robertson
Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
— Robbie Robertson
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.
— Robbie Robertson
Everybody grows in their own way.
— Robbie Robertson
There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.
— Robbie Robertson
I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
— Robbie Robertson
There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.
— Robbie Robertson
One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band.
— Robbie Robertson
I don't like overt traditionalism.
— Robbie Robertson
Music should never be harmless.
— Robbie Robertson
The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'
— Robbie Robertson
I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.
— Robbie Robertson
If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.
— Robbie Robertson
Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.
— Robbie Robertson
Making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world.
— Robbie Robertson
Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
— Robbie Robertson
I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys.
— Robbie Robertson
I'm always optimistic.
— Robbie Robertson
That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.
— Robbie Robertson
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
The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.
— Robbie Robertson
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.
— Robbie Robertson
I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.
— Robbie Robertson
I think the world of Chuck Berry.
— Robbie Robertson
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.
— Robbie Robertson
It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.
— Robbie Robertson
I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.
— Robbie Robertson
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?
— Robbie Robertson
I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.'
— Robbie Robertson
It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.
— Robbie Robertson
The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is ... that's the coolest thing ever.
— Robbie Robertson
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'
— Robbie Robertson
Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable.
— Robbie Robertson
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.
— Robbie Robertson
In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.
— Robbie Robertson
In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.
— Robbie Robertson
Time is not kind to everything.
— Robbie Robertson
I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'
— Robbie Robertson
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
— Robbie Robertson
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
— Robbie Robertson
Record making is an extraordinary experience.
— Robbie Robertson
A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all.
— Robbie Robertson
You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.
— Robbie Robertson
We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.
— Robbie Robertson
I do not have yearnings to get back on a bus. If it means getting on a bus, I don't want to do it.
— Robbie Robertson
You fog the mind, you stir the soul.
— Robbie Robertson
I'm not an activist.
— Robbie Robertson
People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
— Robbie Robertson
The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.
— Robbie Robertson
To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard.
— Robbie Robertson
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.
— Robbie Robertson
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.
— Robbie Robertson
I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
— Robbie Robertson
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
— Robbie Robertson
I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
— Robbie Robertson
My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.
— Robbie Robertson
Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.
— Robbie Robertson
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
— Robbie Robertson
When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.
— Robbie Robertson
The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
— Robbie Robertson
By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.
— Robbie Robertson
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
Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
— Robbie Robertson
It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.
— Robbie Robertson
There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.
— Robbie Robertson
Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.
— Robbie Robertson