151 Quotes by Robbie Robertson

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That’s their life.

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.

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.

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

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it’s working on an emotional level.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn’t about what’s popular; it’s about what’s really good.

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.

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.’

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.’