Robbie Robertson Quotes
-
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.
→ -
Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
→ -
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.
→ -
Record making is an extraordinary experience.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
→ -
I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.
→ -
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?
→ -
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.
→ -
I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
→ -
At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'
→ -
I think the world of Chuck Berry.
→ -
I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.
→ -
I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'
→ -
I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
→ -
By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.
→ -
Time is not kind to everything.
→ -
People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
→ -
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.
→ -
There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.
→ -
It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.
→ -
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.
→ -
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Everybody grows in their own way.
→ -
I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
→ -
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.
→
Related Authors
-
Rita Coolidge Musician -
Levon Helm Musician -
Daniel Lanois Record producer -
Steve Cropper Guitarist -
Garth Hudson Multi-instrumentalist -
Ronnie Hawkins Musician -
Neil Diamond Singer-songwriter -
Rick Danko Musician -
Eric Clapton Musician -
Mavis Staples Singer -
Bonnie Raitt Singer-songwriter -
Joni Mitchell Musician -
Warren Beatty Actor -
Muddy Waters Musician -
Jimi Hendrix Musician -
Steve Winwood Musician -
Bruce Springsteen Musician -
Richard Manuel Composer -
Van Morrison Singer-songwriter -
Bob Dylan Musician