Robbie Robertson Quotes

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• You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

  Robbie Robertson

  Waiting, Heritage, Stumble Upon

  "Robbie Robertson: Native-American experience in music". www.cnn.com. July 6, 1999.

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• Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

  Robbie Robertson

  Inspirational, Giving, Tomorrow

  Song: Showdown At Big Sky, Album: Robbie Robertson

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• I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'

  Robbie Robertson

  People, Pay It Forward, Want

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• I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

  Robbie Robertson

  Thinking, Great Music, Made

  "Singer-songwriter-guitarist Robbie Robertson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• 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

  Needs, Taste, Our Lives

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• Music should never be harmless.

  Robbie Robertson

  Music, Musical, Jazz

  "The Men return to their noisy roots with the tense Devil Music" by Matt Williams, music.avclub.com. November 11, 2016.

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Growing, Spirit, Learning And Growing

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• It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Song, Nice

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• Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

  Robbie Robertson

  Artist, Bob, Influential

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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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Play, Dancer, Twenties

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• You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

  Robbie Robertson

  Fog, Soul, Mind

  Song: Somewhere Down The Crazy River, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987

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• 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

  Country, Voice, Unity

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• By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

  Robbie Robertson

  Rocks, Play, Ontario

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• Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

  Robbie Robertson

  Prayer, Reality, Generations

  Song: American Roulette, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987

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• Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

  Robbie Robertson

  Boys, Stories

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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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Mean, Guitar, Style

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• I don't like overt traditionalism.

  Robbie Robertson

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• 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

  Holiday, Kids, Years

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• 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.'

  Robbie Robertson

  Girl, Guitar, Age

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• You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

  Robbie Robertson

  Interesting, Tomorrow, Knows

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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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Play, People, Musical

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in The Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• Time is not kind to everything.

  Robbie Robertson

  Kind

  "Gen Xers, Millenials Sound Off On The Music That Moves Them". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. October 21, 2013.

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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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Native American, Guilt, Way

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• Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

  Robbie Robertson

  Musical, Revolution, Know How

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• People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

  Robbie Robertson

  Dark, People, Periods

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