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Robbie Robertson


Canadian
July 5, 1943
Musician
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Music should never be harmless.


Robbie Robertson
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To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard.


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There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.


Robbie Robertson
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It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.


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My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.


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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.
Robbie Robertson
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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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That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.


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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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I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio.


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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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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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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 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.'
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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.'
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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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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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My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.
Robbie Robertson
I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.
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I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.
Robbie Robertson
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.
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I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.
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