151 Quotes by Robbie Robertson



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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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    I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

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    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.

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    The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.

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    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.

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    I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

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